Make Me Rain Quotes

“hearing C-flat
against an F-minor
humming the lullaby
to the rhythm of you reading
that silly novel
you try to complete
each night
I rest in your rest
while the day
snuggles in
and sings me
to sleep

‘After the Day”
― Nikki Giovanni, Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose

“And mostly we need to pick and choose Who we listen to so we follow our own path Yeah we need to follow our own path”
― Nikki Giovanni, Make Me Rain

“those folks on the ship who created that moan that became the Spirituals that turned into Jazz and Blues and everything all the way up to Rap and whatever will come next. We who do words are doing what we do. We are not trying to get folk who are frightened of us to be calm around us. We are reminding folk who love us that this is a good thing. Black Ink should be a soup or a drink or something we can embrace with pride. Black Lives Matter. Black Ink reminds us of why.”
― Nikki Giovanni, Make Me Rain

“called the sun today but she was busy fucking behind the gray clouds I asked Ginney my good friend who makes things work to call But the sun wouldn’t answer her either I opened a bottle of Champagne and the fruit flies surrounded the top Lord Lord Lord donald trump must be president”
― Nikki Giovanni, Make Me Rain

“Silence I wondered why Grandmother and Grandpapa could sit in Silence on the front porch She smoked a cigarette He didn’t Sitting on the swing in Silence I washed the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen trying to figure out why they sat in Silence Then I got to be my own age with my own deck and my own person and I understood”
― Nikki Giovanni, Make Me Rain