In Nikki Giovanni’s “ Legacies “ there is a grandmother who wants to teach her granddaughter a legacy so that she can pass it down when she gets older. The grandmother wants to teach her granddaughter how to make rolls. “ I wan’t chu to learn how to make rolls “. The grandmother wants to teach her granddaughter how to make them so she will know and also leave a legacy. The little girl begins to get stubborn with her grandmother. “ I don’t want to know how to make rolls “. The little girl is telling her grandma that she does not want to learn how to make rolls. She also does not want to learn how to make them because she is dependent on her grandmother. She feels that if she learns how to make rolls then, she wont need her grandma as much,