"I will never be your clown, (...) God gave me this gift — and I am a genius. I worked at my craft for six to 14 hours a day, I studied and learned through practice. I am not here just to entertain you. But how can I be alive when you are so dead? SING! You owe me. I don’t wear a painted smile on my face, like Louis Armstrong.”
Nina Simone, shouting at a restless nightclub audience in Cannes in 1977, as reported in 'Princess Noire, The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone' by Nadine Cohodas.
Crouching and Screaming
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Wonderful 1978 illustrations by Outi Markkanen (Finland, b.1951) on Kuriosas.
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