"Giovanni had an aversion to pretension. Form was important but fundamentally her poetry was a platform for truth-telling. She was a straight shooter and would take her argument to the man, black or white."
"Her poetry emerged from the fire and rage that fuelled the civil rights movement. After the assassination of Martin Luther King, her poem Reflections on 4 April 1968 asked: What can I, a poor Black woman, do to destroy america?"
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