The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni (38 page)

²
Amiri Baraka, “Foreword: The Wailer,” in
Visions of a Liberated Future: Black Arts Movement Writings by Larry Neal
, ed. Michael Schwartz (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1989), p. x.

³
Arlene Elder, “A MELUS Interview: Nikki Giovanni,”
MELUS
9 (Winter 1982): 61–75; reprinted in
Conversations with Nikki Giovanni
, ed. Virginia C. Fowler (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1992), p. 126.

⁴
Ibid., p. 128.

⁵
Claudia Tate,
Black Women Writers At Work
(New York: Continuum, 1983); reprinted in Fowler,
Conversations with Nikki Giovanni
, p. 146.

⁶
Nikki Giovanni,
Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet
(1971; reprint, New York: Penguin, 1985), p. 95.

⁷
Virginia C. Fowler, “An Interview with Nikki Giovanni” in Fowler,
Conversations with Nikki Giovanni
, p. 202.

⁸
Barbara Reynolds,
And Still We Rise: Interviews with 50 Black Role Models
(Washington: Gannet New Media Services, 1988), p. 94.