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If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.

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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Hips
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Nations
Spirituals
Culture
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
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God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.
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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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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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Death is a slave's freedom.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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