True Inspiration.

I am still trying to get over the fact that I was allowed to be in the presence of such greatness....still in AWE! Enjoying my Nikki high :D

Video Above is Mrs.Giovanni Reading :

Deal or No Deal

My class is not sure
That I should apply to Deal or No Deal

They think I am lucky
After all
I am teaching
Them

They know I am smart they are
For example
learning
yet

They don't want to see me
Make those greedy mistakes
And push beyond
The envelope

The banker is neither friend
Nor foe
He's a machine

To think you can beat him
Is to think you will win
At Vegas or love

But I persist

My dream is a red dress
Above my knees
High-heel red sandals
And me coming over the top
The music booming
Hi Howie I will say
With a lovely smile

I don't want to play the game
I want to be it

They were born forty years after me
Yet I am younger

I know you cannot go
Through life
Unless you are willing
For love or money
To make a fool
Of yourself

Where else does the ecstasy
lie

Everything Good is SimpleEverything good is simple: a soft-boiled egg...toast fresh from the oven with a part of butter swimming in the center...steam off a cup of black coffee...John Coltrane bringing me "Violets for My Furs"

Most simple things are good: Lines on a yellow legal pad...dimples defining a smile...a square of gray cashmere that can be a scarf...Miles Davis Kind of Blue

Some things clear are complicated: believing in a religion...trying to be a good person...getting rid of folk who depress you...Horace Silver Blowing the Blues Away

Complicated things can be clear: Dvorak's New World Symphony...Alvin Ailey's Revelations...Mae Jemison's ride in space...Mingus Live at Carnegie Hall

All things good are good: poetry...patience..a ripe tomato on the vine...a bat in flight..the new moon...me in your arms...things like that




Mrs.Giovanni Reading: Migrations