Nikki Giovanni

[rack'm]

"Most of us love from our need to love, not because we find someone deserving."

 

[migtig]

"Most of us love from our need to love, not because we find someone deserving."

Another good one.

 

[Nupe2]

"Most of us love from our need to love, not because we find someone deserving."

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to rack'm again.

She is a blessing! You da man, Rack!

 

[Nupe2]

Ego Tripping
by Nikki Giovanni


I was born in the congo
I walked to the Fertile Crescent and built the Sphinx
I designed a pyramid so tough that a star
That glows every one hundred years falls into
The center giving divine perfect light
I am bad

I sat on the throne
Drinking nectar with Allah
I got hot and sent an ice age to Europe
To cool my thirst.
My oldest daughter is Nefertiti
The tears from my birth pains created the Nile
I am a beautiful woman

I gazed on a forest and burned out the
Sahara Desert
With a packet of goat's meat
And a change of clothes-
I crossed it in two hours
I am a gazelle so swift-
So swift - you can't catch me

For a birthday present when he was three
I gave my son Hannibal an elephant -
He gave me Rome for Mother's Day
My strength flows ever on

My son Noah built new/ark and
I stood proudly at the helm
As we sailed on a soft summer day
I turned myself into myself-
And was Jesus!
Men intone my loving name

All praises - All praises
I am the one who would save

I sowed diamonds in my backyard
My bowels deliver uranium
The filings from my fingernails
Are semi-precious jewels
On a trip north I caught a cold and blew my nose
Giving oil to the Arab world
I am so hip - even my errors are correct
I sailed east to reach west - and had to round off the
Earth as I went
The hair from my head thinned and gold was laid
Across three continents

I am so perfect, so divine, so ethereal, so surreal
I cannot be comprehended
Except by my permission

I mean ... I ... can fly
like a bird in the sky ...

 

[Dondi]

"Most of us love from our need to love, not because we find someone deserving."

Concerning Cho Seung-Hui:

Professors and classmates were alarmed by his class writings — pages filled with twisted, violence-drenched writing.

"It was not bad poetry. It was intimidating," poet Nikki Giovanni, one of his professors, told CNN Wednesday.

"I know we're talking about a youngster, but troubled youngsters get drunk and jump off buildings," she said. "There was something mean about this boy. It was the meanness — I've taught troubled youngsters and crazy people — it was the meanness that bothered me. It was a really mean streak."

Giovanni said her students were so unnerved by Cho's behavior, including taking pictures of them with his cell phone, that some stopped coming to class and she had security check on her room. She eventually had him taken out of her class, saying she would quit if he wasn't removed.

Source: Yahoo News

 

[CableChick]

We will continue to invent the future through our blood and tears and through all our sadness ... We are the Hokies ...

-- Nikki Giovanni, University Distinguished Professor, poet, activist

 

[nachomama]

We will continue to invent the future through our blood and tears and through all our sadness ... We are the Hokies ...

-- Nikki Giovanni, University Distinguished Professor, poet, activist

Transcript of Nikki Giovanni's Convocation address
Delivered April 17, 2007


We are Virginia Tech.

We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not moving on, we are embracing our mourning.

We are Virginia Tech.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

We are Virginia Tech.

We do not understand this tragedy. We know we did nothing to deserve it, but neither does a child in Africa dying of AIDS, neither do the invisible children walking the night away to avoid being captured by the rogue army, neither does the baby elephant watching his community being devastated for ivory, neither does the Mexican child looking for fresh water, neither does the Appalachian infant killed in the middle of the night in his crib in the home his father built with his own hands being run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized. No one deserves a tragedy.

We are Virginia Tech.

The Hokie Nation embraces our own and reaches out with open heart and hands to those who offer their hearts and minds. We are strong, and brave, and innocent, and unafraid. We are better than we think and not quite what we want to be. We are alive to the imaginations and the possibilities. We will continue to invent the future through our blood and tears and through all our sadness.

We are the Hokies.

We will prevail.

We will prevail.

We will prevail.

We are Virginia Tech.

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

On Nacho's post, I enjoyed her speech at the convocation. Very powerful.

http://ak-msnbc.msnbc.com/video/100/n_vatech_convocation_giavanni_070417.asf