Reddit reviews Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement My First Twenty-Five Years of Being Black Poet

Meh, it's been a SERIOUSLY long time since I kept up with her, but she went all "yay Jesus" for a while there and stopped writing vampire/witch stuff for a long time. Then Stan Rice died, Katrina happened, and she was suddenly like "yeah, back to vampires; Christians are hypocrites."

I think she only denounced her stuff because she found Jesus for a little while.

I have the profound pleasure to live in the same town and come in contact with Nikki Giovanni. In one of her earlier works, Gemini, she talks at length about bringing down the white establishment and not replacing it with black people, because then she'd just be in the same establishment. She wanted to bring it all down and start all over. She wrote this in the early 70s. As I gave her a copy to sign in 2008, I wanted to ask her how she felt about this now, particularly since she has a very well paying job and teaches primarily white kids. "Nikki, I'd like to ask you about Gemini," I said. She began to laugh and said, "oh, I haven't read that in so long... All I can tell you is that you always change. Every day, you change. When you don't change, you're dead."

So... I think a lot of authors denounce their earlier work, but not because they don't agree, but because they change.