Summary Of Nikki Giovanni's Poem Ego-Tripping

Even though a culture has gone through drastic time should society be ashamed or willing to embrace? Nikki Giovanni, a poet and civil rights activists, wrote the poem Ego-Tripping which was published in 1972. The poem is about how the speaker speaks on her origin showing the readers her strength and power to embrace the culture she holds which is African-American. Nikki Giovanni establishes this by making herself a goddess who holds all these accomplishments. For example, conceiving a daughter named Nefertiti meaning beautiful woman, and Nikki is proud of how confident, and powerful she has become. For example, she claims that she is as swift as a gazelle that the predators cannot catch her meaning that her swiftness refers to those who see

Nikki Giovanni theme is expressed by her activist as a feminist defined as the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men cultural roots being the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. Furthermore, Nikki Giovanni’s pride in the achievement of her own accomplishments. In fact, Nikki Giovanni focus on the embracement of the African-American Society. In the poem Ego-Tripping the Giovanni uses pride to analyze the growth of the African-American feminist, culture, and embracement of the African American

Creating the Nile river is one of the accomplishments the female god is proud of because she brought life to Egypt considering she is a woman. Nikki Giovanni is also proud and confident that her accomplishments could bring a culture together as a whole. In this case, the African-American community because the black culture brings everyone together because of the hardships African-Americans went through. For example, the civil rights movement during the Reconstruction period, and the fight for equality of women. Black culture is what brings them together especially the origin for a history that can make them proud since in the poem they look up to a strong female goddess for all she has