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By Bryce Stucki
Nikki Giovanni is one of America’s most famous poets. She is a New York Times bestseller, a one-time Woman of the Year winner from Mademoiselle and Ebony magazines, a recipient of the first Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award, and a holder of a Langston Hughes Medal. She wrote that “writing is … what I do to justify the air I breathe.” Below is a poem she penned for the Prospect, reflecting on the March on Washington 50 years later.
We, too
I was home
In Lincoln Heights
Named for Abraham
As many other small black
Communities are
Only 20 years old
Not cowardly
I had picketed Rich’s
Department Store in Knoxville
I sat in with Fisk University
In Nashville
But not all that Brave
Mommy didn’t want
Me to go
Neither did my father and I wondered
Would it matter
50 years later I know
It…
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August 29, 2013
Badassery, Poetry