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Amiri Baraka eMaya Angelou; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1991.
Foto:Chester Higgins, Jr.
«As I watched, Amiri Baraka asked Maya Angelou to dance and walked her to the “I’ve Known Rivers” Cosmogram — the focal point of the celebration, newly set into the floor over the ashes of Langston Hughes. As the two poets danced, the energy of the crowd focused on them. The room came alive as everyone applauded.
In this impromptu tribute to Langston Hughes,I believe these two African-American icons created a moment that reflected our collective love for poets of African descent and the continuity of African creative genius.»(A Dance of Rivers, Chester Higgins, Jr.)
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![Nikki Giovanni, For Gwendolyn Brooks [September 23, 1969], in Re:Creation, Broadside Press, Detroit,](https://64.media.tumblr.com/6d2e85b7f3c2e5f2359911e4e155fc09/9bec1b3269e128bc-3a/s1280x1920/c768c2ae363ac6e376a4dffa30bcfab5cfd80a32.png "Nikki Giovanni, For Gwendolyn Brooks [September 23, 1969], in Re:Creation, Broadside Press, Detroit,")
Nikki Giovanni,For Gwendolyn Brooks [September 23, 1969], in Re:Creation, Broadside Press, Detroit, MI, 1970, p. 12
No Complaints
(For Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917-2001)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)
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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.
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