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Who Knows Where the Time Goes?

Soul Music

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The Tiredness of a Black Woman

Nina Simone would have been 36 when she performed the song. She said much later in her autobiography that she felt a sense of failure. And I think this is where that tiredness comes from, in that sense of age which comes through her performance.

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