[Unedited] Nicki Giovanni with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Society, Spirituality, Society & Culture, Sociology, Culture, Science, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Social Sciences, On Being, Arts

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

It feels good and right this week to sit with the beloved writer Nikki Giovanni’s signature mix of high seriousness, sweeping perspective, and insistent pleasure. In the 1960s, she was a poet of the Black Arts Movement that nourished civil rights. She’s also a professor at Virginia Tech, where she brought beauty and courage after the 2007 shooting there. And she’s an adored voice to a new generation — an enthusiastic elder to us all — at home in her body and in the world of her lifetime even while she sees and delights in the beyond of it.

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0:00.0	Support for On Being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the spiritual foundation for a loving world.
0:07.0	Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding principle and animating force for our lives,
0:13.0	a powerful love that helps us live in sacred relationship with ourselves, others, and the natural world.
0:19.0	Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.
0:22.0	I'm Christa Tippett. Up next, my unedited conversation with poet Nikki Giovanni.
0:28.0	There is a shorter, produced version of this, wherever you found this podcast.
0:34.0	Hello.
0:36.0	Hello.
0:37.0	Oh, hello.
0:38.0	Nikki.
0:39.0	Hi, it's Nikki.
0:40.0	Yeah, hi. It's Christa Tippett.
0:42.0	Hi, Christa.
0:43.0	I couldn't hear you breathing or anything at the other end.
0:46.0	Usually I can hear a sign of life.
0:48.0	Oh, so yes.
0:50.0	Well, welcome. I'm so delighted to have you at the other end of my microphone.
0:54.0	Thank you. I'm glad to be here.
0:56.0	I apologize for being a little late.
0:58.0	Oh, no, don't worry. Not to worry.
1:01.0	I think I'm just going to talk to my producer here for a minute.
1:05.0	How do you want us to do some levels?
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