Nikki Giovanni Quotes
If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look at the Greeks and the Romans, right? It was always men. They never brought any women. Because women carry the seeds of the revolution, right? And if you have the men by themselves, then you can do what the French did with the Blackfeet, which is breed them out.
Giovanni, Nikki. Conversations with Nikki Giovanni. Edited by Virginia C. Fowler, University Press of Mississippi, 1992.
Referring to the Arawak natives he found when he landed in the "new world—San Salvador:"
That is exactly what happened. The Spanish raped and interbred with the native women in the Americas and it was their offspring who ended up dominating South and Central American societies.
Miller was the first Black American admitted to a Graduate Program—Johns Hopkins—in Mathematics
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. One of the world's most well-known African-American poets, her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children's literature. She has won numerous awards, including the Langston Hughes Medal and the NAACP Image Award. She has been nominated for a Grammy Award for her poetry album, The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection. Additionally, she has been named as one of Oprah Winfrey's 25 "Living Legends".
