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Well, with friends mostly, I think that if they want me to know something, they'll tell me.
Nikki Giovanni
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Poet Nikki Giovanni On The Darker Side Of Her Life — Tell Me More (October 29, 2013); Complete sentence in Giovanni’s answer about respecting friends’ privacy. Full NPR interview transcript read on member-station WWNO; own conversational words, not passages she later reads from her poetry.
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Poet Nikki Giovanni On The Darker Side Of Her Life — Tell Me More (October 29, 2013)
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