This morning I heard this interview with filmmaker Liz Garbus on her new Nina Simone documentary. Nina Simone is a North Carolina native; she was born and raised in Tryon. I gave a presentation on her life and work to the first-year Integral Arts class here at WCU last fall. Along with all the amazing things Simone accomplished in her life, I told students to remember that Nina Simone showed us how to use music (and the arts in general) to communicate anger in a constructive way. When she was introduced to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Simone told him, "I'm not nonviolent." "Not to worry," he reassured her. Thank you, Nina Simone, for showing us what it looks like to communicate creative, constructive, sincere anger. We can still learn quite a bit from your example.
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