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 Nikki Giovanni Quotes
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 It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. show me someone... 
 
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Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr. | | Variant Name: |
Nikki Giovanni | | Birth Date: |
June 7, 1943 | | Place of Birth: |
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Ethnicity: |
African American | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
poet |
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 Biography of Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr.
1,141 words, approx. 4 pages
American poet Yolande Cornelia (Nikki) Giovanni, Jr. (born 1943), initially wrote poetry from a revolutionary African American standpoint in the 1960s, but later moved to more traditional themes and softer attitudes. Nikki Giovanni, née Yolande... summary from source:
Biography of Nikki Giovanni
11,723 words, approx. 39 pages
 Nikki Giovanni came into prominence on the American scene as one of the most noted poets of the new black renaissance that began in the 1960s. Since that time she has grown from the open, aggressive, and explosive revolutionary tendencies that... summary from source:
 Biography of Nikki Giovanni
9,410 words, approx. 31 pages
Nikki Giovanni is an important and extremely popular literary figure who came into prominence on the American scene as one of the most noted poets of the new black renaissance which began in the 1960s. Since that time she has grown tremendously from...
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 Nikki Giovanni Information
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Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni (born June 7, 1943 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is a Grammy-nominated American poet, activist and author. Giovanni is currently a Distinguished Professor of English at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State...
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 Chicago Defender American Grace: Nikki Giovanni
09/14/2007: 523 words, approx. 2 pages Nikki Giovanni is more than an activist. She is an indispensable connoisseur of history, candidly still seeking justice and equality through truth and is the embodiment of a profoundly creative poet in American culture. She was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and grew up in... summary from source:
The Washington Post For Poet Nikki Giovanni, a State of Grace
02/07/2004: 997 words, approx. 3 pages Never mind that it's only February; this is shaping up to be her year. There's the spoken-word Grammy nomination, not her first nomination, she says, but her only nomination, since this will never happen again and she sure as heck isn't going to win... summary from source:
 AP News Memorial dedicated at Virginia Tech
8/19/2007: 338 words, approx. 1 pagesA set of 32 small stones that became a focal point for the grieving Virginia Tech campus following April's shooting spree were replaced with much larger rocks in a solemn ceremony on Sunday.The new, 300-pound stones engraved with each victim's name in front of an... summary from source:
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Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Margaret B. McDowell
8,982 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following essay, McDowell argues for a more comprehensive criticism of Giovanni's work, claiming that it is generally misinterpreted and poorly assessed due to earlier criticism biased by "the critics' misperceptions, their insistence on half-truths, or their … political and personal convictions."
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Critical Essay by Martha Cook
8,634 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Cook discusses the theme of place in Giovanni's poems, arguing that Giovanni's most important poems are not the early, militant poems, but those which are greatly concerned with place, home and family.
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 Essay Grade: 86%Overcoming Notions and Finding Identity
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In Nikki Giovanni's poem "Woman," a female struggles with society's notion that she needs a man in her life for her to achieve self-fulfillment. As the poem progresses and the struggle plays out, the woman realizes that she can and must act on her own and empower herself, enabling her to achieve her goals as a separate entity who does not require a man.
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