She was a truly beautiful human being.

Have you ever heard her cover of Pirate Jenny? My god.

First, this is amazing. Second, let’s all use this as an opportunity to post beautiful Nina Simone songs. Here’s “Little Girl Blue”:

I was such a big fan of hers for years, and you know how the internet can help destroy your image of someone who you used to like? Nope, everything that’s come out about her has just made me love her more.

Wouldn’t it be amazing if Nina Simone referred to me as “love” like she did the interviewer?

Simone “didn’t enjoy speaking with white people”

Ain’t got no / I got life is so awesome!

YES. And what the Romneys of the world don’t understand is that, if you need $20 for groceries, then $20 is not a small amount of money. Even if it seems so to a lot of people.

I’m right in the middle of millennial and Gen X (i’m, white, female, 36) - come from a poor family (older parents who grew up in an era where it’s considered an embarrassment to take money from family beyond the age of 18). Moved out at 18 (my parents: ‘You think you’re allowed to live here for free? LOLOLOL’) Put…

The one and only time I asked for money from my parents was when I couldn’t afford my text books in college one semester. My mom loaned me $300 (something she could EASILY do) and then she proceeded to lay on the guilt trips so thick that I paid her back as soon as I could. I never asked her for money ever again. But…

This is exactly what I came here to say! Even beyond the ability of my family to give me money (which they... probably couldn’t beyond maybe $20 for groceries) there’s a lot of privilege in knowing that even if everything goes wrong I’m not going to end up homeless, because I can always move back in with my mom. It’s…

I asked my dad for $100 once and I felt like such an asshole. He called back a few minutes later to say he couldn’t quite do it but would $50 help, and then I felt like I wanted to crawl into a hole and die.

Listen, I am not blaming you for their support. As long as you acknowledge that you have an advantage it’s cool.

But the fact that you keep saying “It’s not my choice!” makes you sound a fraction closer to these millennial in the piece than you might want to be. You don’t HAVE to accept their money. It’s totally okay…

Dude, my college roommate had her dad rent her a two bedroom apartment 4 blocks from campus in case she needed more privacy, yet she still insisted on getting the nicer room of our double for the entire year.

Oh god, Facebook bragging is the worst. I’ve unfollowed people because they are chronic “look at me” braggers. Everything is about them.

totally, i was much more of your ilk than the kids who asked. but then, i also always knew that i would never be out on the street and i would always have a family to support me. we are still pretty fucking privileged.

I’m almost in that camp, minus being a Trumpie, being 30ish and working in my career. Point is, what I used to perceive as a struggle (being broke, but too afraid to ask for money I knew I’d always get) and where Mrs. Cap was (being broke, working, and no one to rely on but herself) are two different places. Too bad…

exactly! I just want to shout this at everyone:

Yup. And yet at some point my sister forgot this, and has been manipulating my mom out of a hefty % of her meagre income over the last several years. It drives me crazy. We grew up in the same house, she knows my mom lives paycheque to paycheque. But my mom bails her out every month, buys all her groceries, and just…

I’m from one of those towns, too (woohoo, connecticut town with no income or racial diversity). I definitely did get help from my parents (assistance with paying an apartment deposit when moving into nyc, because I sure as hell didn’t have $3500 starting a month after college, but I paid them back over the course of a…