Nikki Giovanni's Poetry

     Nikki Giovanni was very explicit in her poetry. Her poem Nikki-Rosa was very open about her feelings towards the way that whites grow up and the way that blacks grow up. It actually surprised me that she was so straight forward. Most people hold their true feelings back while she told it how she felt. The stereotype about most young blacks is that they grow up poor. She wanted to make it known that she liked her childhood and that she was happy most of the time that she was growing up.
     I really liked Nikki Giovanni's poem I'm Not Lonely. I felt like I could really relate to that. Sometimes even though you are alone that does not mean that you are not happy or feel alone, sometimes people want to be alone. They ask for me time. They just want to be free from the cruel hard world or maybe get away from their lives because things are bad.
     Again one of Nikki Giovanni's poems Poems for Black Boys was very straight forward about race. She obviously has some issues regarding people's views on blacks versus whites. I like people that speak how they feel and do not hold it inside. I am very much like that. Although I say things respectfully, I still like to voice my opinion.