go swimming a lot

“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

(courtesy of i have two things and the july/august issue of the believer)