Nikki Giovanni The Way I Feel 12/4/12 High Flyin Bird 5

High Flyin Bird 5

and has yet to become

the album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 selling over 1 million copies in it's first week

His absurdist sense of humour

stubborn people need someone sometimes

Nikki Giovanni The Way I Feel 12/4/12 High Flyin Bird 5"What does it mean to be a Black woman poet in America writing for liberation? 'I am black alive looking back at you' June Jordan so masterfully said and it speaks volumes to what so many Black women poets in the 70"s and 80"s did for the culture of poetry, speaking volumes to the legacies they built that we can stand on with pride and more agency to express ourselves and for that we are forever thankful. Nikki Giovanni would go on to inspire many