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[Unedited] Nicki Giovanni with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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I'm Twenty Five Years Old, a Revolutionary Poet

Nicki giovanni: I always felt like, okay, this is a fourth of my life. What am i trying to do? Well, a part of what doing is articulating. If i were on that ship, i would be the person who started the song. Because somebody has to raise a voice. It's not just courage, but the foresight or something, to say we have to talk. And this is the soul of a poet. Maybe somebody has to have the soul of a sure that works for me. That song had to come from some place. But since i'm not, i'mi'm at twenty five. So i came up at a time that

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