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I always wondered exactly how Nikki Giovanni found a way to be that in love with herself.

Because she was.

She was that in love with poetry, with art, with words, with her people, with young people, black young people.

The celebrated poet passed away at age 81 this week, and I still can't believe.

She was just the fifth guest ever that we had here on Undistracted.

It was the thrill of a lifetime because I had grown up reading her work, admiring her fervor, appreciating her revolutionary spirit that was always, always full of love.

I'd watch interviews that she did with James Baldwin and Muhammad Ali and read the

incredible words that she had written like the poem Ego Trippin, which I quoted at the very

beginning. On Twitter, Dragonfly Jones called Nikki Giovanni, our cool auntie, and I think

that that is the most apropos term of endearment

and respect that we could give her because she saw us generation that were born after her.

She saw our value, our worth so much so that she came to a brand new podcast to talk to a young

woman she had never met before and fill me and all of us

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