I love the city....

I Loves You Porgy

Nina Simone

and there is a qualified difference between Nina's version and Barbra's version. This is Nina's.


I loves you, porgy,
Dont let him take me
Dont let him handle me
And drive me mad
If you can keep me
I wanna stay here with you forever
And Ill be glad

Yes I loves you, porgy,
Dont let him take me
Dont let him handle me
With his hot hands
If you can keep me
I wants to stay here with you forever
Ive got my man

I loves you, porgy,
Dont let him take me
Dont let him handle me
And drive me mad
If you can keep me
I wanna stay here with you forever
Ive got my man

Someday I know hes coming to call me
Hes going to handle me and hold me
So, it going to be like dying, porgy
When he calls me
But when he comes I know Ill have to go

I loves you, porgy,
Dont let him take me
Honey, dont let him handle me
And drive me mad
If you can keep me
I wanna stay here with you forever
Ive got my man

Conservative culture has made homophobia not only acceptable, but the norm. I just overheard a girl's conversation in which she said that someone was "such a fag" and that she "should just kill them." I think we need a total revolution....and some castration needs to occur as well.

I am about twenty-something pages into Bruce Perry's biography of Malcolm X. I don't like Mr. Perry's politics.

For some reason today I felt like I was in Aunt Earnestine's house. Eerie dejavu.

I just watched the Tom Cruise video from the Oprah Show on NPR. He truly was crazy. I know Oprah was scared, with him shaking her so. I know I'd have been.

ABC and Aids

ABC News dedicated a large segment of their show tonight to the topic of AIDS in Black America. I have very few complaints, although I think Jesse Jackson could have reached across and kicked Terry Moran. However, my thoughts on the lack of public concern and discussion within the Black community is that it is directly tied to the Black community's ever-present link to patriarchy. We have to eliminate patriarchy in order to exists. Get rid of it. Eradicate it.

I have for a long time been in love with Queen Latifah's Beauty Shop.

Abblie Lincoln- A Lovely Little Song

I work at the Palace Ballroom,
But gee, that Palace is cheap.
When I get back to my chilly apartment
I'm much too tired to sleep.

I'm one of those lady teachers,
A beautiful hostess, you know.
The kind the Palace features
At exactly a dime a throw.

Ten cents a dance,
That's what they pay me,
Gosh, how they wear me down!
Ten cents a dance,
Pansies and rough guys,
Tough guys who tear my gown.

Seven to midnight I hear drums,
Loudly the saxophone blows,
Trumpets are breaking my eardrums,
Customers crush my toes.

Sometimes I think I've found my hero,
But it's a queer old man.
All that you need is a ticket:
Come on, Big Boy, ten cents a dance!

Fighters and sailors and bowlegged tailors
Can pay for a ticket and rent me!
Butchers and barbers and rats from the harbor
And sweethearts my good luck has sent me!

Though I've a chorus of elderly beaus,
Stockings are porous with holes in the toes!
I'm dead at closing time!
Dance, sounding merry, it's only a dime!

Oh, politics.

Great News!

Women can buy the morning after pill without prescription! What a victory for women's reproductive rights!

Project Runway

Robert designs clothes for drunk,middle-aged white women. Period. That last outfit was walmart bound. If I were Angela I would have kicked Jeffrey's ass....

I thought about my uncle today. Its been a good week...

It will be interesting to see how this journalists situation turns out. Ironic that they come from Fox News aka the Republican News Network. Fuck Fox News....

Bush is playing politics with peoples lives. Someone needs to be angry.

I Wish I Knew What It Felt To Be Free

Nina Simone

I wish I knew how
It would feel to be free
I wish that I could break
All the chains holding me
I wish I could say
All the things that I’d like to say
Say ’em loud say ’em clear
For the whole round world to hear
I wish I could share
All the love that’s in my heart
Remove every doubt
It keeps us apart
And I wish you could know
What it means to be me
Then you’d see and agree
Every man should be free

I wish I could live

Like I’m longin’ to live
I wish I could give
What I’m longin’ to give
And I wish I could do
All the things I’d like to do
You know they’ll still miss part of you
Yes sir...
And I’m way way over due

I wish I could be like a bird up in the sky
How sweet it would be
If I found out I could fly
So long to my song
And look down upon ihe sea
And I sing because I know
I would see you
I sing because I know
I would see you
And I sing because I know
I would see you
To be free yea

Don't Smoke in Bed

Nina Simone

I left a note on his dresser
And my old wedding ring
With these few goodbye words
How can I sing
Goodbye old sleepy head
I'm packing you in like I said

Take care of everything
I'm leaving my wedding ring
Don't look for me
I'll get a hand
Remember darling
Don't smoke in bed

Don't look for me
I'll get a hand
Remember darling
Don't smoke in bed

My question with this song is- did she burn him up?

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