Carolina QuotesMr. Backlash, Mr. Backlash/Just who do you think I am?/You raise my taxes, freeze my wages/And send my son to Vietnam/You give me second class houses/And second class schools/Do you think that all colored folks/Are just second class fools?
Nina Simone Carolinian
Source
Nina Simone, Backlash Blues 1967
- year
- 1967
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“Mr. Backlash, Mr. Backlash/Just who do you think I am?/You r…” Nina Simone. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-715859D285. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/715859d285
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Hound dogs on my trail/School children sitting in jail/Black cat cross my path/I think every day's gonna be my last/Don't tell me, I'll tell you/Me and my people just about due/I've been there so I know/They keep on saying "Go slow!"
I wish I could share all the love that's in my heart/Remove all the bars that keep us apart/I wish you could know what it means to be me/Then you'd see and agree/That everyone should be free/But, oh, I'm just a soul whose intentions are good/Oh, Lord, please, don't let me be misunderstood
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.