"Since i can't go where i need to go . . . then i must . . . go where the signs point through always understanding parallel movement isn't lateral"
"Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy"
"Now that you're gone i don't dream and no matter what you think i'm not lonely sleeping all alone "
"I wrote a good omelet...and ate a hot poem... after loving you"
"It seems no matter how I try I become more difficult to hold I am not an easy woman to want"
"rain is god's sperm falling in the receptive woman how else to spend a rainy day other than with you seeking sun and stars and heavenly bodies how else to spend a rainy day other than with you"
"we poets tend to think our words are golden though emotion speaks too loudly to be defined by silence "
"maybe i shouldn't write at all but clean my gun and check my kerosene supply
perhaps these are not poetic times at all"
-Nikki Giovanni
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