Four Women released in 1966 Was way ahead of the times. Climbed to number one on the record charts in Detroit youtube/watch?v=Nf9Bj1CXPH8&sns=em Nina Simone - Four Women My skin is black my arms are long My hair is woolly my back is strong Strong enough to take the pain inflicted again and again What do they call me? My name is aunt Sarah My name is Aunt Sarah Aunt Sarah My skin is yellow my hair is long Between two worlds I do belong But my father was rich and white He forced my mother late one night And what do they call me? My name is Saffronia My name is Saffronia My skin is tan my hair is fine My hips invite you my mouth like wine Whose little girl am I? Anyone who has money to buy What do they call me? My name is Sweet Thing My name is Sweet Thing Simone explained in I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters and Their Craft: I am emphatically against the injustices of black people, of third world people. Four Women came to me after conversations I had with black women. It seemed we were all suffering from self-hatred. We hated our complexions, our hair, our bodies. I realized we had been brainwashed into feeling this way about ourselves by some black men and many white people. I tried to speak to this in the song. And do you know, some black radio stations wouldnt play it? It is true what they say: the truth hurts.
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