Nikki Giovanni

and colleges throughout the United States (Rojas 2147). The Black Arts Movement was also thought to have been initiated by Malcolm X’s assassination (Salaam). In literature, some of the movement’s distinguished writers are Hoyt William Fuller, Nikki Giovanni, Maya Angelou, Ishmael Reed, Rosa Guy, and Toni Morrison. The following report discusses race and realism…

Loud. That was my first thought when Ms. Giovanni started speaking at the MLK Celebration Speaker event on January 18, 2017. Not loud as in volume wise but loud as in everything she did was big. The moment she took to the stage all focus was on her and the words she spoke. For such a small, petite looking African American woman, her personality was enormous. One could immediately tell that she held a strong pride in the color of her skin and her gender. She constantly reminded the audience of…

Milestone Two The two poems being used for this assignment are Sylvia Plath’s “mad girls love song” and Nikki Giovanni’s “balance.” Mad girls love song is about a girl that feels like the man she fell in love with isn’t real, but just something she created in her own head because he suddenly disappeared and never returned. Balance is about the balance of black and white, truth and lies, love and loneliness. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the linguistic principles demonstrated in each of…

can destroy you? Nikki Giovanni was a black female born in Ohio. She visited Africa in 1972, the year Ego Tripping was published. That same year was when many civilizations were finding their origins. Giovanni celebrates being a black female with a huge ego during that time, so big that she seems to be tripping over it. In “Ego Tripping.” Nikki Giovanni uses allusion, simile, metaphor and symbolism to show that her self-confidence makes her feel powerful and invincible. Giovanni thinks of…

Giovanni acknowledges that when she started writing, she was heavily concerned about the Black situation in the world, but came to realize that gender bias was a real problem. (Fowler, 1992, 127). Giovanni stated herself that “I am an individual first; I am a woman. I understand the problems of being black; I am black.” (Fowler, 1992, 127) As an artist, she refused to be controlled by her gender and forced to commit to only one cause. Giovanni was an outspoken female poet…

people are expected to create while in the confidences of American society without complaining about its condition. Throughout this semester of African American literature, there are three writers who expressed this more than any other and they are Nikki Giovanni, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Langston Hughes. In reading “for Saundra”, “A Red Record”, and “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” I have a greater understanding of black artist long standing struggle of accurately portraying black…

writings. Her style was sensitive, talking about the struggles of being black from social, political, cultural, and economic standpoints (Carson 901). Nikki often wrote about what she was going through at the time (Carson 903); she wrote many of her works while dealing with the anger she felt toward her grandma’s death, as well as when she had cancer (“Nikki” 154). She also wrote about what she believes in. focusing on how people are more important than ideas (Pettis 126). Nikki’s grandma…

ideas behind intersectionality, or how various categories of oppression work together, were around without a name for a very long time. In particular, it pervaded the work of black women writers from Zora Neale Hurston of the Harlem Renaissance to Nikki Giovanni and Carolyn Rodgers during the Black Nationalism and Black Arts Movements. Black women have the unique experience of being on the lower rungs of not one, but two categories of oppression: race and gender. It was within these…

it. In contrary, wealthiness is only a small part of luxury when there is an immense variety of types of luxury such as luxury of happiness, luxury of dreaming and luxury of family that pleases people a lot better than money can possibly does. Nikki Giovanni, one of the world’s most well-known African American poets who has been nominated for a Grammy Award points out that love is the best luxury of all by contrasting between living in a materialistic society and experiencing the real love.…

more significant, to be independent or to be dependent? In the lyric poems "Legacies," "the drum," and "Choices," by Nikki Giovanni, the author expressed her thoughts and feelings relating to the independent spirit in life. Her purpose through the three poems is to "suggests that we all must find a balance between what we want to do and what other people expect of us" (page 417). Giovanni used specific stylistic devices in the poems and those devices contribute to the message of the poems. The…