Poetry From the Soul of a Black, a Woman, a Tennessean

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Nikki Giovanni is an original. Through her poetry, other writings and talks, she shares vivid glimpses of the human experience which, in her case, includes the experience of growing up in the near-South of the USA in the age of segregation. Nikki is all about breaking loose and choosing direction as is evidently clear from her reflections on her experience drawing on many facets of her experience, including that of a black, Tennessean, woman, and much, much, more. She teaches at Virginia Tech.

Among Nikki Giovanni's writings:

Black Feeling, Black Talk (1968)
The American Vision of Abraham Lincoln AT THIS MOMENT
Spin a Soft Black Song (1971)
Ego-Tripping and Other Poems For Young People (1973)
The Women and The Men (1975)
Those Who Ride The Night Winds (1983)
Grand Mothers: A Multicultural Anthology of Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories About the Keepers of Our Traditions (1994)
Love Poems (1997)
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems (2002)
Grasshopper's Song
Bicycles: Love Poems

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Nikki Giovanni - Poetry From the Soul of a Black, a Woman, a Tennessean
The changes that happened in the 60's
The changes that happened in the 60's
About the various forms of educations our society needs
and about how prisons should be abolished.
About her grandmother
and how she married her father.
Where she grew up
Where she grew up
Covering both the flawed creation of prisons by the quakers
and what needs to be done to fix the problem of the prison industrial complex.
Some of the questions by listeners
Some of the questions by listeners
About the roles that people were expected to play in the past
and how women were put on a pedastal and how the roles are false.
Her participation in the sit ins.
Her participation in the sit ins.
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Black Experience

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