Truth Is on Its Way

Nikki Giovanni

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 14, 1993)
• Original Release Date: October 19, 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B00000095E
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #40,380 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Memories that are classic, December 12, 2005

By	Vanissa Thurman (manassas, va) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The first time I heard this album, and the previous Like A Ripple on a Pond, I was a freshman at Ohio State University, away from home and on my own for the first time in my life, and living around more white folks than I could imagine inhabited the planet. As only one of less than 1500 minority students of all races at a university that had over 40,000 students on its main campus, I felt as powerless and as insignificant as a gnat facing down a 100 watt light bulb. But then the word came down that Nikki Giovanni would be performing her poetry at the student union. I got to hear the sister speak live the words that I had repeated over and over as I listened to the albums on my record player. It was so good to be in a room full of folks like me who could speak every word of the poetry we had memorized as we played the albums over and over, time and again. The sister was church, a soulful experience. The gospel of Bernard Diggs and the New York Community Choir, the power of Sister Nikk's poetry made my small, cramped dorm space bearable. Nikki Giovanni, along with Dick Gregory, made the experience of being a speck of color in a sea of white bearable. Her poetry renewed my strength, gave me courage, and made me want to get past all the hurts and insults too often black students on all white campuses had to endure in those early days when we were the first vanguard of blacks that walked through the doors the civil rights movement had opened just a crack. And now years later I am a professor of English. I use the sister's peotry as often as I can, both Truth is on Its Way and Like a Ripple on a Pond. They are my most vibrant teaching tools as examples of free verse, imagery, rhyme and meter. I am happy to say that it is my younger white students who are the most swept up in the spirit after hearing How I Got Over or a Ripple on a Pond for the first time. I get the same reply, "Don't turn that off. I want to hear the whole CD." I am glad I can tell them where they can get it. Lord knows, a sister is tired of making copies.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Greatest!, April 1, 2001

By	Gayle Jackson Sloan "Author" (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews

I bought this ALBUM 31 years ago, when I was 13. I memorized every poem on it. I played it so much, I wore the poor thing out. I was delighted when I came across the CD. I can't begin to express how this collection of poems touched my life. There is something for every mood and feeling. If you have never heard it, get it and get uplifted!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Play it, then play it again and hear something beautiful!, June 13, 1999

By	[e-mail] (Okinawa, Japan but originally from Alabama* & Illinois.) - See all my reviews

I used to have the original albums of this and a couple other of her works with the gospel choirs. Nikki's poems have a kind of flair that not only tickle your funny bone but also make you think. I am glad that my search has brought me here. Now I will be able to share with my children what I enjoyed when I was younger. This young lady has a lot of love and it shows in what she has shared with us. Her poems are so colorful that you could close your eyes and imagine yourself sitting on the porch next to the "lady of leisure" (you could see the pride and years of survival in her eyes) or standing right there as she brings the scene to life in the "Alabama Poem" (my favorite*). Ms Giovani is to poetry what Minnie Ripperton is to music. The music and poetry will take you to a place where you can truely feel all of your senses. Play it, then play it again and hear (see) something beautiful! Thanks Nikki, from Midas in Okinawa, Japan. This review is from what I remember hearing on the albums. I will revisit this review after I receive the CD's.