Nikki Giovanni “Adulthood"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ธ.ค. 2017
- “I usta wonder who I’d be
when I was a little girl in Indianapolis
sitting on doctors porches with post-dawn pre-debs
(wondering would my aunt drag me to church sunday)
i was meaningless
and i wondered if life
would give me a chance to mean
i found a new life in the withdrawal from all things
not like my image
when I was a teenager I usta sit
on front steps conversing
the gym teachers son with embryonic eyes
about the essential essence of the universe
(and other bullshit stuff)
recognizing the basic powerlessness of me.
but then I went to college where i learned
that just because everything i was was unreal
i could be real and not just real through withdrawal
into emotional crosshairs of colored bourgeoisie intellectual pretensions
but from involvement with things approaching reality
i could possibly have a life
so catatonic emotions and time wasting sex games
were replaced with functioning commitments to logic and
necessity and the gray area was slowly darkened into
a black thing
for a while progress was being made along with a certain degree
of happiness cause i wrote a book and found a love
and organized a theatre and even gave some lectures on
Black history
and began to believe all good people could get
together and win without bloodshed
then
hammaskjold was killed
and diem was killed
and kennedy was killed
and malcolm was killed
and evers was killed
and schwerner, chaney and goodman were killed
and liuzzo was killed
and stokely fled the country
and le roi was arrested
and rap was arrested
and pollard, thompson and cooper were killed
and king was killed
and kennedy was killed
and i sometimes wonder why i didn’t become a debutante
sitting on porches, going to church all the time, wondering
is my eye make-up on straight
or a withdrawn discoursing on the stars and moon
instead of a for real Black person who must now feel
and inflict
pain” - เพลง
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It's 2022and I can confirm she's still so beautiful & so timeless.
“I was meaningless and I wondered if life would give me a chance to mean” omg that’s hard I swear 🔥🔥🔥
To feel and to inflict pain… the worse sin is intentional cruelty… I prayed; I prayed very hard and long -- an when I feel a heavy burden; I’ve inflicted deserved or undeserved on another I ask for forgiveness and I apologize; however only once has an apology been uttered to me…❤
Love you Nikki G.❤Deep Sister ❤💋❤💋
Beautiful
Beautiful ✨
Gorgeous! Brilliant!
This is beautiful!!!💕💕💕💕
This the best video.
This sister must not be forgotten....more relevant than Beyonce 😮
Beautiful sister pay attention
thank you for uploading
You are welcome. She is an inspiration to me.
@@ngpainter Who is the woman playing piano and singing ??
@Anic when you find out pls tag me too honey😩🥰 she reminds me of Roberta Flack but I don't wanna say that without confirming.
@@Laura-sg6ss someone replied to me in another one of my comments it is Roberta Flack
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This is real.
That was a hell of a roll call...
@@fifibury5256 thanks for the like. I’m doing my research on the names that I don’t know...✊🏾
So sad we do not have more sisters like her around these days..
Luckily she’s still around
We don't have anyone anymore. Men don't do things like they did before either.
Women don't need men anymore.... remember😶
@Wil Frank men have been acting like they don't need women for much longer. Don't get mad that women verbalised it, and men didn't yet have done so for much longer. Look at her conversation with James Baldwin. Why wouldn't women come to that conclusion when it feels like you're hitting a wall all the time. Clearly, everyone needs everyone. HOWEVER, sometimes you must remove yourself from a bad situation, and women are removing themselves from the idea that a woman must be as mentally dependent on a man as she once was. To let him go and be free so she can be free too. No one needs to beg a man to stay when he so clearly wants to do whatever he wants, but when the RIGHT man comes around, then he is extremely welcome and respected. We don't need ALL men. We are, in essence, more selective and more careful with the men we let in our lives. Isn't that a good thing?? Because if we let everyone in, men would blame us for being careless. We're not being as careless as the older generations anymore. Why would anyone be opposed to that unless they have bad intentions? Do you?
Ok sure whatever... have a nice day🙂
who was the singer at the end?
I'm not sure. But I am happy it is part of the video.
Roberta Flack. I thought it was Georgia Anne Muldrow at first but this video precedes her time.
Roberta Flack
@@ngpainter Roberta Flack. If I remember correctly, the song is Angelitos Negros.
Tripe
?? Meaning?
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James Baldwin schooled this lady really good.
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@@Laura-sg6ss check their talk together from 1971
@Frank Pontone he didn't tho, they had an conversation where they shared ideas. What specifically are you talking about? Because she was doing things before they had the conversation...it's the reason they had the conversation at all. So what specifically??