Without a doubt one of the most passionate live poetry performers i have seen. She famously said some of her best crowds were inmates... I would have loved to have seen that, but not enough to, you know, be convicted of a crime.
Reposted from Tennessee Lookout
Knoxville native Nikki Giovanni, a poet, educator and civil rights leader whose career spanned more than five decades, died Monday at age 81. From Angela Dennis.

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