“ His headstone saidFREE AT LAST, FREE AT LASTBut death is a slave's freedomWe seek the freedom of free menAnd the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached non-viol… Nikki Giovanni
“ It is interesting that a guy like W.E.B. Du Bois, who actually did very little, I should imagine, with his hands, wrote about I am the smoke king. Without the labor, both free and slave, of African Am… Nikki Giovanni
“ I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops. Nikki Giovanni
“ Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together. Nikki Giovanni
“ I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really… Nikki Giovanni
“ And sometimes I sitdown at my typewriterand I thinknot of someonecause there isn't anyoneto thinkabout and i wonderis it worth it Nikki Giovanni
“ And sometimes I sitdown at my typewriterand I thinknot of someonecause there isn't anyoneto think Nikki Giovanni