Ian Penman, The Wire, June 2003
The realisation that she was black in a country run by whites, a woman in a world run by men, turned Nina Simone into the voice of a revolution. Ian Penman pays tribute to a singer whose multifaceted song distilled the concentrated essence of hope.
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