Nikki Giovanni Quotes About Slaves

Quotes about: Slaves

• His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached nonviolence.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Kings, Men, Justice

  Nikki Giovanni (1993). “Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People”, p.28, Chicago Review Press

• There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Two, People, World

  Quoted in James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni, A Dialogue (1973)

• Death is a slave's freedom.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Slavery, Slave

  Nikki Giovanni (1993). “Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People”, p.28, Chicago Review Press

• If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look at the Greeks and the Romans, right? It was always men. They never brought any women. Because women carry the seeds of the revolution, right? And if you have the men by themselves, then you can do what the French did with the Blackfeet, which is breed them out.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Men, Creating, Greek

  Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. April 2007.

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