Nikki Giovanni
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68 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Nikki Giovanni’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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No.
Huh. No, because it gets you caught up in your life, and that's not what you like. Your life is not about your life. Your life is about your duty.
When you look at the stars and then you think about the other life forms, you think, well, there is something else. I can't quit now. There is something else.
Oh, thanks, Rachel. I'm glad to be here.
I can't believe it. You know, I used to say all the time, you know, I really liked old age. It was a good idea. But 80 really kicked my butt. And I'm hoping that 81 is a lot better. I just got out of the hospital about a week ago. I'm just old. And I was dehydrated. And I had to go to London twice. And I like London, but flying back and forth is... I know. I could have swam.
You know, I would have been better off.
There you go.
Oh. I am not, and I did. No, you know, parties are work, no matter what anybody says. But we played bid whist. I have a bid whist group. I don't know what that is.
It's like bridge, only for more intelligence.
We're going to get letters on that one. And my dear friend, whom I love so much, Javon Jackson, came down. And Javon doesn't go anyplace without his saxophone. So he plays sax. He plays dinner sax. And so that was very nice because there was no work I didn't have to do.
Yeah, I was glad to be out of the hospital, and I was glad to be with friends. And I didn't have to get dressed. I did shower, but I didn't have to be dressed.
Oh, I love games. You do? Oh, sure. The Weakest Link, Jeopardy, The Wall. Okay.
Oh, I wish I'd made you fresh ginger cookies. I love ginger cookies. Soft kind or crispy? Soft. Soft. Always soft. Like my grandmother.
I'm leaving. I'll see you later. Bye.
Well, I'm a baby sister, so I'm number two. I get it.
Yes, I wanted to know why Mars was red. And my obsession was that there was a war on Mars and that they had developed atomic energy so that Mars burned itself up. And as I lay in bed for most of my life, actually, to look out the window, I have seen Mars, which is why I talk about it a lot.
And I would like to go to Mars because I think that as a black woman, my sisters and I could build a community.
I'm a baby sister. I shared a bedroom with my big sister. She wanted the bed by the walls. I don't know why, but that gave me the bed by the window. And so I would look out the window and watch the stars. And the stars haven't changed. So you have to ask yourself, what are they telling us? What am I learning?
Well, my parents had what I would call, in nice words, troubled marriage. And what space let me know is that this could not be the end. And thank God I did have a grandmother. And I went ultimately to live with my grandmother. But when you start to look at the stars and then you think about the other lifeforms, And you think, well, there is something else that I can't quit now.
There is something else.
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