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Nina Simone: "Are you ready to burn buildings?"

Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 22 June 2015

From singing the soundtrack to the civil rights movement to living in self-imposed exile in Liberia, Nina Simone never chose the easy path. As a new documentary is released, we look at the angry, lonely life of a soul legend.

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