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my house by Nikki Giovanni
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Habits
by Nikki Giovanni
i haven’t written a poem in so long
i may have forgotten how
unless writing a poem
is like riding a bike
or swimming upstream
or loving you
it may be a habit that once acquired
is never lost
but you say i’m foolish
of course you love me
but being loved of course
is not the same as being loved because
or being loved despite
or being loved
if you love me why
do i feel so lonely
and why do i always wake up alone
and why am i practicing
not having you to love
i never loved you that way
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Nikki Giovanni, 'Allowables', ''Chasing Utopia'', 2013
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i love you, still, i’m sorry it’s not enough
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Notebooks 1951-1959 by Albert Camus // The Knight of the Flowers (detail) by Georges Rochegrosse // The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica by Bernadette Mayer // Little Weirds by Jenny Slate // Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre // The Fairy Glen by Steve Gill // The Carrying by Ada Limón // All the Gay Saints by Kayleb Rae Candrilli // Mirrors X by Nikki Giovanni // The Poet by Reynier Llanes // The Wanderings of Oisin by W.B Yeats // Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke // Letter to Gustave Flaubert X by George Sand // When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen // Waterlilies by Claude Monet
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C O N V E R S A T I O N S
#nikki giovanni#james baldwin#conversations#black tumblr#black love#black stories#black history#black beauty#black men#black woman is god#black art
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my hands have made / some good mistakes. they can always / make better ones.
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The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader. If you know what you’re talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.
– Nikki Giovanni
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1971, London: 47-year-old novelist, James Baldwin, sat down to have an honest and open discussion with 28-year-old poet, poet Nikki Giovanni, about the state of affairs between the Black men and women of the time. The wide-ranging conversation explores Black life in America, the struggle for racial justice and evolving gender roles, while also offering insight into the work and artistic process of two literary icons. (source)
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Humans As Monsters
George Monbiot for The Guardian // Henry Selick, Coraline // MARINA, Savages // Victor Hugo, Les Misérables // Jordan Peele, Us // Dante Alighieri, Inferno // Frankenstein — Playing With Fire at Guthrie Theater // Nikki Giovanni, Allowables // Picasso, Guernica
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it’s ~ finals season ~ which means writing multiple 20 page papers, which also means that i will read tons of shorter books to give my brain a break
#studyblr#study#booklr#litblr#reading#books#literature#reading aesthetic#gradblr#grad student#finals#nikki giovanni#poems#poem#poetry#book annotations
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BLK history month by Nikki Giovanni
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Resignation
by Nikki Giovanni
I love you
because the earth turns round the sun
because the North wind blows north
sometimes
because the Pope is Catholic
and most Rabbis Jewish
because winters flow into springs
and the air clears after a storm
because only my love for you
despite the charms of gravity
keeps me from falling off this Earth
into another dimension
I love you
because it is the natural order of things
I love you
like the habit I picked up in college
of sleeping through lectures
or saying I’m sorry
when I get stopped for speeding
because I drink a glass of water
in the morning
and chain-smoke cigarettes
all through the day
because I take my coffee Black
and my milk with chocolate
because you keep my feet warm
though my life a mess
I love you
because I don’t want it
any other way.
I am helpless
in my love for you
It makes me so happy
to hear you call my name
I am amazed you can resist
locking me in an echo chamber
where your voice reverberates
through the four walls
sending me into spasmatic ecstasy
I love you
because it’s been so good
for so long
that if I didn’t love you
I’d have to be born again
and that is not a theological statement
I am pitiful in my love for you
The Dells tell me Love
is so simple
the thought though of you
sends indescribably delicious multitudinous
thrills throughout and through-in my body
I love you
because no two snowflakes are alike
and it is possible
if you stand tippy-toe
to walk between the raindrops
I love you
because I am afraid of the dark
and can’t sleep in the light
because I rub my eyes
when I wake up in the morning
and find you there
because you with all your magic powers were
determined that
I should love you
because there was nothing for you but that
I would love you
I love you
because you made me
want to love you
more than I love my privacy
my freedom
my commitments
and responsibilities
I love you ‘cause I changed my life
to love you
because you saw me one Friday
afternoon and decided that I would
love you
I love you I love you I love you
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
Nikki Giovanni
#Nikki Giovanni#motivation#quotes#poetry#literature#relationship quotes#writing#original#words#love#relationship#thoughts#lit#prose#spilled ink#inspiring quotes#life quotes#quoteoftheday#love quotes#poem#aesthetic
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natalie wee / john patrick shanley / gang of youths / antoine de saint-exupéry / christopher anderson / richard siken / richard curtis / robin beth schaer / jen mazza / nikki giovanni / rita dove
#just. love and life being messy and violent and worth the sacrifice. idk#web weaving#on love#poetry#parallels#quotes#compilation#richard siken#le petit prince#natalie wee#love actually#gang of youths#nikki giovanni#jen mazza#rita dove#yes this is a repost bc i forgor to tag the last one like an IDIOT#also hello i am alive. more to come soon#//
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Waves - Mr Probz / Crazy/Beautiful / Conversations Over Sanguinaccio Dolce - IB Vyache / Normal People / Skins / The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998 - Nikki Giovanni / Neon Genesis Evangelion / Golden Age - Ethel Cain
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