That was before I knew I was gay and my response was not about a man talking about a woman. Her voice is androgenous and could almost play as a man's voice: "Black is the color of my true love's hair.his hands.his face"-it's obviously male gender here. I'd pick up the record and play it again and again: "Black is the color." I'd listen to Simone's voice tremble, it'd get so soft and it was so filled with.I didn't know then why that song had such strong feeling and meaning for me. Nina Simone - Whoopee - My Baby Just Cares For Me: Nina Simone: 3:36. I played over and over as a kid and teenager the way some people played Beatles' songs or the Fifth Dimension or the Temptations. NINA SIMONE - Greates Hits Full Album Best songs of Nina Simone 1. The Nina Simone song was one I had always loved. Listening to this music kept me thinking that there must be something better than this. At age ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, I felt so lonely. That's partly why my own Nina Simone album is so scratched but I don't care if it's not perfect sounding. I played those songs over and over as a kid and listened to them as my parents played them. To use them means bringing up stuff from my past. Marlon Riggs ( interview by Chuck Kleinhans in Oakland CA in November 1989)
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