Photo reblogged from The Husky Bro with 511 notes
“When I used to get blue years ago James Baldwin would say the same thing to me each time, ‘This is the world you have made for yourself Nina, now you have to live in it.’ Jimmy was always a man to see things as they really are and his gaze would never flinch no matter how unpleasant the things he saw were.”
- Nina Simone on James Baldwin, I Put a Spell On You (1992), ix
Source: thejazzcorner