#nikkigiovanni — Public Fediverse posts
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Now the white boys are policemen shooting unarmed 14-year-olds to death. Or they are billionaires running for president. Stirring up hate. I’m not sure fathers are necessary beyond their biological function. If we are going to criminalize women for abortions, shouldn’t we also criminalize the men who impregnated them?(2/2) – #NikkiGiovanni #BlackHistory
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I read now about the need for black boys to have fathers in the homes, and I wonder. White boys have fathers at home, and they end up in the KKK. The white boys end up calling us names. Spitting at us and worse...(1/2) – #NikkiGiovanni #BlackHistory
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Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.
-- Nikki Giovanni⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NikkiGiovanni #Mistakes
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Dollhouse #Canyonlands #Utah
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"People want to say their child will be upset, so 'we don’t want a book about slavery because it hurts my child’s feelings.' Well, they didn’t hurt your child’s feelings as much as it hurt the people who were enslaved, so get over it." – #NikkiGiovanni #BlackHistory
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y4OPYp4s0tc#
Getting into James Baldwin. So many of his concerns are still ours today, regardless of color, and he's comforting to hear, but makes me sad to realize that even after his eloquence and our efforts, the world refuses to change into a home of patience, inclusion, kindness, courage and dignity. 🤬
#justice
#conversations
#theopenworldof42
#history
#truth
#soul
#nikkigiovanni
#jamesbaldwin
#love
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Played around with a trail photo (from my forest walk).
[ Choices By #NikkiGiovanni.
If i can't do
what i want to do
then my job is to not
do what i don't want
to doIt's not the same thing
but it's the best i can
doIf i can't have
what i want . . . then
my job is to want
what i've got
and be satisfied
that at least there
is something more to wantSince i can't go
where i need
to go . . . then i must . . . go
where the signs point
through always understanding
parallel movement
isn't lateralWhen i can't express
what i really feel
i practice feeling
what i can express
and none of it is equalI know
but that's why mankind
alone among the animals
learns to cry. ]#Choices #poetry #VisualArt #PhotoArt #nature #portals #pathways #trails #Poem #photography #Mirrored #art #LifePaths #GoYourOwnWay #Winter #SummerInYourSoul #forest
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Autonomies: **Wishes for the new year**
https://autonomies.org/2026/01/wishes-for-the-new-year/
So, certainly, things have changed. And there is a lot to do. The next century is right on us. Policemen need to give up their guns. Society needs to dismantle all our prisons. If we need to detain people, a … Continue reading →
#Poiesis #EnekolasHeras #NikkiGiovanni -
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheCraigCharlesFunkAndSoulShow
Nikki Giovanni:
🎵 Poem For A Lady Whose Voice I Likehttps://nikkigiovannimh.bandcamp.com/track/poem-for-a-lady-whose-voice-i-like
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Hanging out with two poems today, both getting at a bit of the secret history we all carry, but in very different ways.
Excerpt from poem #1, "Nikki-Rosa" by Nikki Giovanni
"childhood remembrances are always a drag
if you’re Black
you always remember things like living in Woodlawn
with no inside toilet
and if you become famous or something
they never talk about how happy you were to have
your mother
all to yourself and
how good the water felt when you got your bath
from one of those
big tubs that folk in chicago barbecue in"Full poem is available here:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48219/nikki-rosa -
#TBT #1971 #NikkiGiovanni and #JamesBaldwin in conversation. Two of the finest minds that any civilization has ever produced. IMHO This is a must-see. #History #AmericanHistory #Literature #USPol https://www.allarts.org/programs/generational-anxiety/soul-featuring-james-baldwin-nikki-giovanni-part-1-wv7gqj/
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"I think, first of all, it’s important for people to write. There is this tendency among Black youngsters to be poets without having ever written a poem, let alone thought about getting it published. I think that you have to write if you’re going to be a poet then you have to let somebody know that you do that. It is not sufficient to have 300 poems at home that you’ve written over the last 30 years..." #NikkiGiovanni #BlackHistory
https://blknewsnow.com/nikki-giovanni-wgbh-say-brother-interview-1975/ -
I #read A Library by Nikki Giovanni. 5.0 ⭐
A #lyrical picture book by a world-renowned #poet.
📚 #StoryGraph Genre #Challenge
✅ Prompt 4: A children's book published after 2020 by an author of colourIt was a cute story, and the illustrations are beautiful. A nice opportunity to utilize my #Kobo Libra Colour.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/ff53bad7-11a1-46f2-8cbf-d4a27006496a
#bookstodon
#childrensbook
#books
#ebook
#imagination
#reading
#library
#librarybook
#libraries
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Lesbians and genderqueers: it's the weekend.
https://dzr.page.link/9W1CNMjG8od23Zmv7
This absolute BANGER came on again in shuffle during the week, and I've been mainlining on it since then. What a poem by Nikki Giovanni, and what a TUNE.
#TheWeekend #Music #NikkiGiovanni #EdnaFliedel #KidsOfTheatreOfOz #HannyNahmias #JamieXX #TheAvalanches #Sampling
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Saturday
#JavonJackson Quartet The acclaimed tenor #saxophonist and his band celebrate the legacy of the late, great American poet #NikkiGiovanni They’ll be performing Hollywood-associated numbers from the Great American Songbook, as featured on Jackson’s second collaborative recording with Giovanni, 2024’s “Javon And Nikki Go to the Movies.” March 22, 7 p.m. $48.05-$64.85. Scullers.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHYqO21gFG-/
scullersjazz.com - its not on the site calendar but...
#jazz #saxophone #TenorSax #BostonMusic #BostonWeekend 9/x -
"Werewolf Avoidance by Nikki Giovanni
I've never "blogged" before so this is new territory for me I do poet though and that is always somewhere in the netherland I think poetry is employed by truth I think our job is to tell the truth as we see it don't you just hate a namby-pamby poem that goes all over the place saying nothing
Poets should be strong in our emotions and our words that might make us difficult to live with but I do believe easier to love Poet is garlic Not for everyone but for those who take it never get caught by werewolves"
— Nikki Giovanni: Chasing Utopia, p. 80
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"A Robin's Poem by Nikki Giovanni
if you plant grain you get fields of flour if you plant seeds you get grass or babies i planted once and a robin red breast flew in my window but a tom cat wouldn't let it stay"
— Nikki Giovanni: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, p. 119
#TodaysPoem #Poetry #NikkiGiovanni #BlackPoets #QueerPoets #BlackHistoryMonth
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“His headstone said
FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST
But death is a slave's freedom
We seek the freedom of free men
And the construction of a world
Where Martin Luther King could have lived and
preached non-violence”
― #nikkigiovanni
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"The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Nikki Giovanni
His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached non-violence."
— Nikki Giovanni: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, p. 51
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"Sometimes by Nikki Giovanni
sometimes when i wake up in the morning and see all the faces i just can't breathe"
— Nikki Giovanni: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, p. 132
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#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter who were your favorite thought leaders of 2024?
My favorites were:
#MarcLamontHill
#RuhaBenjamin
#DrAutumnBlackdeer
#HelianaRamirez
#SandraHinojosaLudwigAlso didn't want to forget to include our late ancestor #NikkiGiovanni who was a true gem both as a public intellectual and as a person
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CerysMatthews
Nikki Giovanni:
🎵 Second Rapp Poem -
When I Accidentally #Outed #NikkiGiovanni
As a #fan of Giovanni, I admired her #brilliance and #activism. But a #misstep caused #backlash—labeling her an “#out #lesbian.” This incident highlights the need to respect #privacy and avoid #assumptions.
— Giovanni never publicly #identified as #LGBTQ+, though her work inspired #queer #communities.
#Women #Lesbians #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #HigherEducation #Outing #Allies #Representation #Culture #RoleModels #BlackMastodon
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
Nikki Giovanni:
🎵 The Way I Feel -
"sometimes after midnight or just before
the dawn
we sit typewriter in hand
pulling loneliness around us..."My latest newsletter is about poetry and the passing of the great Nikki Giovanni.
A Poet's Necessity: https://thorncoyle.kit.com/posts/a-poet-s-necessityThanks so much for reading.
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #StreetSounds
Nikki Giovanni:
🎵 Just a NY Poemhttps://nikkigiovannimh.bandcamp.com/track/just-a-ny-poem
https://open.spotify.com/track/7MCSTub37HRsnGzXDTMM6J
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2cVwGPN1WK78W1iCP1qIWH🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg
