I read a book about her life and cannot understand why we donโt have a movie about her. At one point she was more famous and paid than Billie Holiday and was the first black person (male or female) to have her own show on prime time tv and yet many donโt even know her name.
Hazel Scott was a child prodigy admitted to Juilliard at age eight who played two grand pianos at once, spoke seven languages, and refused segregated audiences or demeaning roles. She was married to Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. for 15 years, from 1945 to 1960, and they had a son together.
Yโall do not like yourselves. Thatโs why everybody gotta come back to the office, you canโt go eat lunch or the movies alone, and your SO canโt go anywhere without you. Youโre a loser and you know it, but youโve decided to make it everyone elseโs problem
@peachtownJ A CLASSIC! ๐ฅ And the nerd in me couldnโt get enough of his rhyming style reminiscent of couplets from the Canterbury tales. I couldnโt stress enough to my classmates how intricate his style was when it came out. This song solidified me as a lifelong Luda stan lol