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I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.

Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Nina
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