"Hers is a committed and social rage. She is capable of scalding rhetoric..., ..one senses a dynamic intelligence..." Martha Duffy. "Hustler and Fabulis." Time January 17, 1972.
"Like it or not-and some people don't like it-she[Nikki] has become a cultural force to be dealt with. Nikki's poetry is about what she sees, what she feels, and experiences..." Peter Bailey. "Nikki Giovanni: " I Am Black, Female, Polite...." Ebony February, 1972: 49ff.
"Still it [Gemini] is an entertaining collection of mostly high-spirited raps."
June Jordan. The New York Times Book Review February 13, 1972: 6.
"Nikki Giovanni looks upon her world with a wide open penetrating gaze. She sees her world as an extension of herself.."
John Conner. English Journal April 1973:650.
'Nikki is at her best in the short, personal poem....She says the right things at the right time."
Don. L. Lee. "Nikki Giovanni"Dynamite Voices I: Black Poets of the 1960's. Broadside Press, 1971. 68-74.
"Giovanni can be remarkably warm as in "For Theresa," or she might make a drill of her love, as in "For A Poet I Know," and strike the oil of life that only those who are prepared to die more than one might experience."
David Llorens. " ' Black Judgement'" Negro Digest Magazine April, 1969: 82-4.
"Nikki Giovanni is a special poet for this special time-a revolutionary one....she records [the spirit of time and place] in a special way.."
Sarah Webster Fabio. '' ' Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgement' " Black World December, 1970:102-04.
