''take french lessons, go swimming a lot, buy langston hughes books, get high, hire a girl once a week to take care of your clothes (sew, clean, organize closets), find a psychiatrist, a spanish babysitter, take dancing, find shoemaker, write hazel scott, find yellow pills, buy books a friend told me about, stop abusing andrew.''


~nina simone, from a list made to herself (written on air france letterhead), 1965
[taken from the july/august issue of the believer], via damn gina