Nikki Giovanni

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Also Known As	Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr.
Born	June 7, 1943 • Knoxville • Tennessee
Died	December 9, 2024 (aged 81) • Virginia
Notable Works	“Bicycles” • “Black Judgement” • “Chasing Utopia” • “Ego-Tripping” • “Gemini” • “I Am Loved” • “Love Poems” • “Make Me Rain” • “Re: Creation” • “Sacred Cows…and Other Edibles” • “Spin a Soft Black Song” • “The Sun Is So Quiet” • “Those Who Ride the Night Winds”
Role In	American civil rights movement

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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