Nikki Giovanni on Rosa Parks, James Baldwin, and Activism | NYFF61

[@5749MiMi]

Thank you Dr Giovanni for explaining ancestry black women and the Middle Passage. RIP🕊️

[@LITERARYSPEAK-ch7kl]

I met Nikki Giovanni twice and she reinforced my sense of self. My heart aches at her passing.

[@LITERARYSPEAK-ch7kl]

I actually met Danticat too, at a book event she did in Brooklyn more than a decade ago.

[@PickyPippi]

I love Nikki! I adore Edwidge!❤

[@patriciapope-ls4lr]

Forever in my heart...so grateful that I had the awesome opportunity to have met this great woman!❤

[@RLNDO-]

i am forever grateful for you 🙏🏾 thank you so much for being my elder, your leadership is unmatched

[@LITERARYSPEAK-ch7kl]

I spent a lot of my life not crying too and being proud of it, until I discovered that crying is cleansing/healing.

[@dianeperry1811]

Amen! God gave us tear ducts...for that very reason.

[@tialeaux]

24:30 Leaning on Everlasting Arms… rest well, Nikki. ✨

[@sandrawilliams6164]

That right Ms. Nikki Giovanni, everyday we wake-up "we win!" Thank U! Real talk 💯 Peace ☮️ Love 💙 n Light of Christ consciousness 😇

[@tamarahickman6301]

REST IN PEACE…PHENOMENAL…QUEEN…NIKKI GIOVANNI…WE WILL CHERISH YOUR WORDS OF WISDOM…❤️🌹🌎🪽…GROUP HUGS…LOVE …TO HER FAMILY…

[@MsTiLaJ]

Her life has been filled with so many interesting and wonderful events. I learn so much every time I hear her speak🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾

[@deed5049]

She was jaded by her experience with her father, as she should have. I watched her discussion with the Late James Baldwin (PBUH). She was 28 her view of men has not changed. "Black men are crazy/Black women are phenomenal." Both are true. And as we all are connected, so is the opposite. I do not excuse the poorly aimed angst of any man regardless of culture. But understaning is a muscle.

[@rashondaabercrombia3023]

🕊️🕊️🕊️❤

[@ObediahSmith-s1z]

Steps Left In Snow For Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, June 7, 1943 - December 9, 2024 I should say goodbye, after all that she has been - after all that she has meant, fellow-Fiskite, fellow-poet - big sister of mine… determined to return to university to complete my unfinished degree - not wanting to go back to MSU that I had abandoned 7 years before praying, pondering, wondering, where will I go, and it was her voice - her poetry that made up my mind for me - a poem on her LP of poems I owned about dropping out of Fisk and being urged by a parent to return to complete her degree, reminding her that her grandfather had graduated from Fisk in 1905… just then, it hit me, right then I knew, “That’s it!” I said aloud to myself, “I’ll go to Fisk!” and that is what I did attaining a study leave from teaching, I attended Fisk for one year, 1985, and what a time it was - what a tradition I became a part of it was "Nikki" Giovanni who inspired me, through poetry - with a poem to become a part of the Fisk family… well, I heard day-before-yesterday from a friend who dropped by, and again, last night, on MSNBC, that "Nikki" Giovanni, at 81, has passed away after a battle with cancer… ah, the music of her voice - of her poetry, I will remember always the brightness of her verse - her fighting spirit what an inspiration she was - is and always will be RIP, sister, fellow-Fiskite, gone on to join the angels in heaver in song © Obediah Michael Smith, 2024 10:28 AM Thursday 12.12.2024

[@dianeperry1811]

Beautifully spoken...yes, I could hear your voice as you wrote. Thank You so much. Gratefully, =diane perry= December 16th 2024