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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.

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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Folks
Jazz
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Nina
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