maybe there is something about the seventh of June: Gwen, Prince and me … or maybe people just have to be born at some time … and there are only three hundred sixty-five days or three sixty-six every four years or so …
– Nikki Giovanni, from ‘Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea’(2002)
Nikki Giovanni,Re:Creation, Broadside Press, Detroit, MI, 1970 [Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY]. Photocover by Chester Higgins, Jr.; Designed by Ray Prather, Jr.