[Even though the content of Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet] is contemporary, it is written from a personal as well as a personalist view. Personal, meaning interpreting perceptions from the framework of one's own experience, primarily, and subjecting them to a formal ideology only as a secondary consequence. Personalist, meaning that the ultimate value of any act or movement is directly proportional to one's own self-actualization and its negative or positive effect on interpersonal relationships….
In the first part of the book, Nikki talks with warmth and humor about her family….
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