Poet Nikki Giovanni on white supremacy, the Capitol attack, and teaching the Virginia Tech shooter

[@katrinawilliams9546]

Thank you for all your words, Ms. Nikki ❤ Rest in Paradise 🙏🏽❤

[@lynnm.3453]

Thank you for all you gave to us, Nikki. Tears. ❤❤❤

[@creatingpeace8945]

Just a freakin’ gift! Hoping young will read, memorize some cuz “You & I are ✨ exploding in our Blue Black skins”

[@pamiGQ]

I love that she still carries what she took from her conversation with James Baldwin in the '70s with her

[@LuzDoSol-yr5bv]

" Happiness is the decisions that you made." This is not something. Amazing !!!

[@adriennewilliams-conover5473]

I had the pleasure of meeting you Ms. Giovanni. You took a picture of my daughter and I -leaving us a memory of you. Good night Sister.

[@EmmaYaBasta]

Rest in Power, Nikki. Love from your home in Cincinnati.

[@nicolesright4800]

W😮W, I didn't know that. Thank you for sharing from the 513.

[@tracyclark7560]

Proud with tears Nikki, Maya, Toni, Sanchez, Davis, Rice, are my gender and race, and nationality.

[@doloresbeauchamp3484]

They will never be forgotten or should be.😢

[@DemarrcoSmith]

Truth is powerful! Thank you for this interview Queen Giovanni!

[@janicescott-pair97]

Her gifts will live on forever. 😊😊

[@OniWa-u6n]

Wow, finally someone said it in public. "When you always have more, others have less."

[@oao1queen]

The Queen of many things! Thank you for sharing your Poesy and your huge loving heart with us! I / we will always love you! Beautiful Queen 👑Nikki Giovanni! RIP & RWG in Freedom with the Ancestors. 🖤👑🙏🏾📯🎹📯

[@Notturnoir]

Thank you Poet Nikki Giovanni!!!

[@dkv1201]

RIP Nikki. Brave and inspiring lady

[@MsTiLaJ]

Her perspective challenges and inspires us all🙏🏽

[@michellecheek1618]

Thank You For Speaking Truth To Power, Sister Giovanni! Rest In Power, Queen. 🖤🖤✊🏾✊🏾😔😔

[@savoir777faire]

🌹 🕯️ 🕊️ RIP Nikki

[@djustice2449]

This woman here is so special!!!! And always will be! Thanks Queen! 👑

[@carlineohamuo5406]

Many Thanks Dr. Nikki Giovanni for sharing your spirit, gifts and talents. Rest in Peace.❤

[@michedasobers4581]

Love her! Love this. Such a good soul that returned to the oneness 🕊️❤ 🕊️

[@demetriuscephas5538]

Thank You For SPEAKING TRUTH Ms. NIKKI GIOVANNI RIH🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@joycemelton9694]

I APPLAUD YOU MS. NIKKI GIOVANNI😢❤❤ PEACE!!!

[@pamparker4047]

Nothing but truth ❤❤❤❤

[@cbfall]

Love Nikki Giovanni! Outstanding poet she is!!!

[@ElonBomani]

I love you Goddess Giovanni! May Your Spirit live on in each and every one of us! Rest in power, peace, and paradise!!!

[@doloresbeauchamp3484]

One of my favorite most admired persons in my life I discovered Nikki G. In the earley 1970s and she changed my life forever.She was a force and will be missed.😢

[@marlon1171]

This planet is a lesser place without Ms Giovanni....May she have rejoined her family,her loved ones,all of them with whom they'll have some red wine and maybe champagne aswell... Rest in peace,god bless you🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎

[@TByronK]

Thank you Nikki, you were one of my best Teachers and I am still learning from you. 🌠

[@zombiegeekboy]

Only just discovering Nikki and I’m so happy she existed, and we were blessed with her presence on this planet and our lives. ❤️❤️

[@gregberke6772]

RIP Nikki, thank you for being able to express your observations.

[@mountainlinx]

❤🙏🏻 thank you for every single word!

[@justmyopinion9883]

Thank you for sharing your gifts with us, Miss Nikki. RIP. 🙏🏽❤️

[@kingmaafa120]

Elder sista Now you get to rest, among the others Ready assured your legacy will outlast forever 🦾🐈‍⬛ In the words of the great African proverb You’re aren’t dead until they stop talking about you 🦾 Be blessed TBC 🇹🇿🇺🇬❤️🦾🐈‍⬛👍🤐

[@Marilyn-p4q]

I love the purple color in the background. Very nice.😊

[@deewoo2776]

Ms. Nikki Giovanni 🙏Rest In Peace🙏 ~ Love her poetry ~

[@BlackGirlInADoggoneWorld]

This interviewer is proof of why I finally understood people who would get upset with me for saying POC and bunching black people in. These questions he is asking are the kind of delusional queries I would expect on FOX News. I stopped at his black president question. It was upping the ante on delusion. I will check her interviews out with someone else, preferably someone who knows the difference between "ideas" and "morals" versus summing it all up as "angry."

[@AliRisings]

Wow! I literally just posted on this. Then, I scrolled through the comments to find you share similar sentiments. His approach to interviewing Nikki was distasteful.

[@BlackGirlInADoggoneWorld]

@@AliRisings I paused for a little bit and hoped it was a "his heart is in the right place" moment, but EVERY SINGLE QUESTION was making me wince. Good to know it's not just me. I'm baffled by the other comments saying he was race baiting.

[@brooklynnygarden]

Thank you Nikki for your words and understanding love. Rest!❤❤

[@Sharon-c6i]

❤Love is an 👿 important factor in make change God bless dear Nikki 💘 Giovanni!

[@tylerlately]

Interesting comments. Anyway, whenever I hear Nikki talk about the shooting I get overwhelmed with anguish and hatred for that kind of evil. Her assessments are almost always spot on!

[@jacquelynmatthews7508]

Bravo. Excellent question, answers and interview. Rest Well Mama Giovanni until next time

[@gustose6]

Thank you for this. What a beautiful Earthling!

[@joseyrare]

When enough is enough, thank you so much for this. Crossing me. I’m sorry you left before I got to see but this is my current situation. Thank you so very much. Together forever♾️🤷🏼‍♀️🖤🪬🫂

[@stephaniebutler7300]

Truth teller! LOVE YOU NIKKI!

[@evonza4858]

Bless her beautiful soul😘🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@ivycee355]

GB Queen, RIP 🙏 Such an Eminence of written and spoken words.

[@ZaziJams2]

I love Nikki Giovanni's poetic expressions, profound thinking, and analysis of racism in Amerikkka, family life, and reel life.

[@hopgood1982]

I was so blessed by just listening to this short video. I believe this short conversation just saved my life 😊 by allowing me to believe in the power of myself. She gave so much context to the power of words 🎉🎉and the true understanding of black wealth. She is such a jewel. 💎

[@jamillawebb3567]

What a blessing I’m so grateful for the legacy and beautiful work she has left behind for us. ❤❤❤❤

[@louisaaugustine9839]

Rest in Power Nikki

[@tracyclark7560]

Absolutely incredible to have marked Poet Nikki's time.

[@dopestein_]

She was so pure. God bless her. 🙏🏾

[@telachapman]

Lincoln Heights OH , OWN R.I.P ❤U

[@Seabasstien]

Amazing interview especially regarding her confrontation with the student who would be the shooter. I remember how sad and shocked I was and then Sandy Hook happened and I realized Americans would never do anything about gun control

[@janicescott-pair97]

She left us, with so many beautiful girgts and lessons.

[@mikescorpio1108]

8:18 I say this all the time. RIP, Lady Nikki.

[@magharibicomms3891]

RIP Nikki. Your voice will forever live. We love you dearly. Your African fan.

[@ablacksquare]

What a marvelous conversation. I enjoy hearing her speak, respond and use words so masterfully. I hope she gets to outer space or Mars somehow.

[@DemarisDontae]

Blessings on Blessings 🙌 I Like The Earthling Sentiment...

[@AnnetteClark-h3l]

She was an amazing and interesting person

[@gabhorton]

This was incredible. A legend.

[@tymelogix]

13:22 Nikki and James Baldwin had a long discussion about this subject- it's hard to counsel when it's hard to console and it's hard to console with a broken hearted counsel

[@charlesc.b2435]

RIP To The Great Nikki Giovanni!

[@Redford1-g2t]

You get that kamala harris is black too even though she's also mixed, right?

[@SHEGOTITALL]

❤THANK YOU MRS.G

[@uriellevelupriley684]

Highest Heart Love and Honor to the All Time Great "Auntie Nikki Giovanni" I love you forever ♾️💕 So much wisdom. "Poetry imagined for science to be born."

[@lindastaves5042]

I didn't like the interviewer refering to Dr Giovanni as "angry." Passion has been renamed Anger. Listen to her beautiful words and you will easily realize it was her LOVE for all humans that propelled her to speak truth to power. Rest Beautifully Dr Giovanni~

[@DrNancyLivingCoCreatively]

A National Treasure. 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ This is brilliant.

[@neldadon]

Respect honor n love always Salute 🫡 blessings to you mi lady

[@douglasmorgan-b6g]

Nikki was also it appears to be very gentle even in her Admonishment

[@AliRisings]

I LOVE that Nikki recognized Fannie Lou 👏🏾 I also value her concise expression and ability to account history in a meaningful way. The interviewer is also projecting that she is angry and pessimistic. How disrespectful and untrue. Still, Nikki's genuine, open-minded, and informative communication style trumps; and I'm sure the reason we all hung out to watch the entirety of this interview.

[@Hsg1553]

Incredible intro!

[@ericbray4286]

Wow what a great soul and teacher and poet.

[@Ellecramfraiche]

What a beautiful soul! Thank you Nikki ❤

[@rievans57]

Fascinating.

[@lizardz16]

Cotton candy on a rainy day... thank you for your beauty. Rest in Power😇

[@Torri2200]

I love that she said this nation belongs to earth. Earth is colorful. I’d like to add that everything Beautiful is colorful…Birds, Flowers, Dogs, Vegetables, Fruit, Fish, Trees, Bears..yes and even humans and so on. Us/We are Beautifully different. It’s very strange that some folks want everything “white”.

[@dawnrobbins658]

An amazing soul...RIP..🎉❤

[@DrNancyLivingCoCreatively]

A National Treasure. 💙🌟🌟🌟🌟🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

[@rallytv9766]

Legend! Lovely earthling!

[@roxannewright6418]

Thank you Nikki for balancing out the ugly racism in the old dominion of VA. This is where the old Jim Crow laws started ❤❤

[@KeeAnaTaylor]

Poetry is going to change political spectrum of things I see

[@angerinebrown3711]

Wow she blows my mind i love it i love her Amen to the truth 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@derekrossi7669]

Anger vs Concern

[@jonithalewis747]

EXCELLENT!! ❤

[@karenjarnagin9662]

Rest in Peace and power!

[@alisanina]

Bravo!!!

[@NThe313]

🌹What a treasure. So glad that she was in my lifetime 🌹

[@andypitt2848]

Thank you for this interview 👏

[@tamarawilliamsvanhorn6635]

We are Earthlings.

[@molkakaminski]

Humans always want more

[@geneva3465]

Preach!!!

[@honeyhoney4738]

RIP Mrs. NIKKI

[@2B-Steele]

I did not know Ms. Nikki was a teacher at that school at this time. 😢

[@atfundramccoy8999]

No Word's 💚💚💚

[@therealrobertbirchall]

Wise woman indeed 😊

[@mysteriodreams]

Love.

[@fintamaria2429]

What a wise woman, thank you dear lady for sharing your wisdom with us🙏

[@mastercabbage]

You must have severe brain damage.

[@randomguy6745]

Her first few sentences tells me she is not wise at all lol

[@jackcavendish8900]

Erm, when a black woman speaks, we all listen 💅 👸🏿

[@fintamaria2429]

@@jackcavendish8900 The night of the mind is with you.

[@OnlineEnglish-wl5rp]

She's clearly eaten up with resentment to the point where she tells lies

[@John-u3u7p]

HEAVY

[@Boomers4Zoomers]

Here here, lets stop listening to the media that takls about trump. Let's talk about officials that are doing good things, Bernie, Liz, pete, Jamie, aoc, cory, etc. Wish i could still hear from jamal and our sister cori! Let's talk about love for our fellow earthlings and community! Godspeed, madam. 🛐

[@morrisparrish76]

More than you know!

[@sp9138]

Amazing talent