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“I love a good cry” – Poet Nikki Giovanni
Twelve years ago, I sat in a classroom at Virginia Tech and watched poet and educator Nikki Giovanni inspire a group of black male students, all college football players who had dreams of ascending to the NFL
Giovanni was teaching the young men humility, patience, how to broaden their options in life – and especially how to cope with disappointment if they didn’t make it to the big leagues.
What I didn’t know then was that Giovanni was dealing with her own painful past – and she was just learning how to cry.
As a child watching her father punch her mother, Giovanni said she never wept once.
“I watched my parent’s marriage and I had to make up my mind and what I decided was it that it wasn’t any of my business,” Giovanni said in a recent interview.
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