Published Mon, November 21, 2022 at 12:00 AM EST
I am so hip, even my errors are correct."
- Nikki Giovanni, (NJPAC's NIGHT OF JAZZ, HIP-HOP & SPOKEN WORD)
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 the forest and burned out the Sahara desert. With a packet of goat meat and a change of clothes I had fostered 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 filled New-ark..and I sat proudly at the helms."