[INTERPOSING VOICES]

[MUSIC - NINA SIMONE, "BACKLASH BLUES"]

NINA SIMONE: [SINGING] Mr. Backlash, Who do you think I am? You raise my taxes and freeze my wages, send my only son to Vietnam. You give me second-class houses. You give me second-class schools. You think all colored people are just second-class fools. Mr. Backlash, I'm gonna leave you with the blues. Yes I am.

NINA SIMONE: I choose to reflect the times and the situations in which I find myself. That, to me, is my duty. And at this crucial time in our lives, when everything is so desperate, when every day is a matter of survival, I don't think you can help but be involved. Young people, black and white, know this. That's why they're so involved in politics. We will shape and mold this country, or it will not be molded and shaped at all anymore. So I don't think you have a choice. How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

[MUSIC - NINA SIMONE, "BACKLASH BLUES"]

NINA SIMONE: [SINGING] When I try to find a job, earn a little cash, all you got to offer's your mean old white backlash. But the world is big.