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Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.

Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Make
People
Harriet
Determined
Loves
Everybody
Freedom
Free
Many

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