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Nina Simone also showed her support by visiting Angela Davis in jail and gave her a balloon to lift her spirits up. In the 2012 documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, Davis recalled: "Nina Simone came and visited me for a long time. She came in with a balloon, which the jailers did not want me to have, but I fought for that balloon because I love Nina Simone!" Note: The artwork shown above in Tiffany & Co.'s "About Love" campaign is Basquiat's "Equals Pi" (1982), not "Mecca" (1982).