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Remembering the revolutionary poet, author and educator Nikki Giovanni. Yesterday it was announced that she has passed away at the age of 81. In this clip, she recites an excerpt of her book ‘Gemini’ during an episode of ‘SOUL!’ where she had Miriam Makeba and Muhammad Ali as guests (1971). “I think we are all capable of tremendous beauty once we... See more
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Rule No. 6: What isn’t said is as important as what is said.
Stephanie Stokes Oliver • Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
Italo Calvino once remarked, “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
Stephanie Stokes Oliver • Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
This Is Not a Small Voice
BY SONIA SANCHEZ
This is not a small voice
you hear this is a large
voice coming out of these cities.
This is the voice of LaTanya.
Kadesha. Shaniqua. This
is the voice of Antoine.
Darryl. Shaquille.
Running over waters
navigating the hallways
of our schools spilling out
on the corners of our cities and
no epitaphs spill out of
