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and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it

Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
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Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Typewriters
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
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Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.
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