Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
On the album Let It All Out, Nina Simone sang William Waring Cuney’s poem ‘No Images’ in a capella. The poem won Waring Cuney his first prize in the 1926 Opportunity Literary Contest.
As part of the Harlem Renaissance, “No Images” was a poem hailed as a lodestar for the New Nego Movement of the 192...
She does not know her beauty
She thinks her brown glory
She thinks her brown body has no glory
If she could dance naked under palm trees
And see her image in the river she would know
Yes, she would know
But there are no palm trees in the street
No palm trees in the street
And dishwater gives back no images
She does not know her beauty
She thinks her brown body has no glory
If she could dance naked under palm trees
And see her image in the river she would know
Yes, she would know yes, she would know
But there are no palm trees in the street
No palm trees in the street
And dishwater gives back no image
Images was produced by Hal Mooney.
Nina Simone released Images on Fri Jan 01 1965.