“Ego-Tripping (there may be a reason why ... Finish story here; 10 Essential Nikki Giovanni Poems Everyone Should Read.

Nikki Giovanni, the iconic poet and activist ... Black Talk (1968), captured the fire of the Civil Rights Movement. Poems like Ego-Tripping, Knoxville, Tennessee, and Nikki-Rosa became classics ...

Nikki Giovanni was 28 years old ... Giovanni found new ways to sing songs of self-empowerment. Her poem “Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)” is a powerful example of why so many see ...

OnMonday,literary giant Nikki Giovanni died at 81 ... She would remind us again later, in “Ego Tripping,” of the power she’d inevitably pass on to us.

Nikki Giovanni navigated the world with unwavering conviction ... Francis spoke of Giovanni's poem, "Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)," which celebrates Black womanhood: "I am so perfect so ...

On Monday, Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr., renowned American ... as “Spin a Soft Black Song” (1971) and “Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People” (1973), which showed ...