Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81
Briefly

Killing is a lack of creation. It's a lack of imagination. It's a lack of understanding who you are and your place in the world.
We will forever be grateful for the unconditional time she gave to us, to all her literary children across the writerly world.
Giovanni's first poetry collection, 'Black Feeling Black Talk,' published in 1968, established her as an emerging figure out of the Black Arts Movement.
Her writing was characterized by an interplay of love, politics, loneliness, and race, blending spare language with dense righteousness.
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