Knoxville, Tennessee
(by Nikki Giovanni) I always like summer best you can eat fresh corn from daddy’s garden and okra and greens and cabbage and lots of barbecue and buttermilk and homemade ice-cream at the church picnic and listen to gospel music outside at the church homecoming and go to the mountains with your grandmother and go barefooted and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep (from Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgment by Nikki Giovanni. Copyright © 1968, 1970) |