Imani

“shame the bad
comfort the good
do the rosa parks
just like she would”
― Nikki Giovanni, Acolytes

“If you don’t understand your past, you can’t transcend it, you might repeat it, you don’t understand half of your life. Knowledge is what’s important, you know? Not the erasure, but the confrontation of it.”
― Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“We've got to live in the real world. If we don't like the world we're living in, change it. And if we can't change it, we change ourselves. We can do something.”
― Nikki Giovanni

“do the rosa parks
say no no

do the rosa parks
throw your hand in the air

do the rosa parks
say ... no no

do the rosa parks
tell them: that ain't fair”
― Nikki Giovanni, Acolytes