Of the few photographs of Nikki Giovanni's tattoo, I am now the taker of one of them. The poet had an infamous tattoo on her left forearm that said "Thug Life," In reference to Tupac Shakur ...

Nikki Giovanni, a poet of rage and revolution as ... to the slain rapper Tupac Shakur, had the words “Thug Life” tattooed on her left arm in his honor and included verses by both Maya Angelou ...

When Nikki Giovanni uttered these words ... she — is a folk hero. “I’m a thug,” she’d tell anyone who would listen, showing off the “Thug Life” tattoo emblazoned on her left arm ...

Nikki Giovanni navigated the world ... Toni Morrison. She had a "Thug Life" tattoo on her forearm that paid homage to the phrase Tupac had tattooed across his stomach. When Giovanni died on Dec. 9 at ...

Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr., the beloved Knoxville ... she got the words “Thug Life” tattooed on the inside of her left forearm in honor of the phrase Tupac had tattooed across ...

Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni ... she got the words “Thug Life” tattooed on the inside of her left forearm in honor of the phrase Tupac had tattooed across his stomach. She once met the late Queen ...

Nikki Giovanni, a renowned poet and proud Knoxville ... The poet had an infamous tattoo on her left forearm that said "Thug Life," In reference to Tupac Shakur, son of Black Panther Afeni Shakur ...

When Nikki Giovanni uttered these words in January ... for whom he — like she — is a folk hero. “I’m a thug,” she’d tell anyone who would listen, showing off the “Thug Life” tattoo emblazoned on her ...