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NIKKI GIOVANNI,[object Object],VIEWS ON CIVIL RIGHTS AND EQUALITY,[object Object]
Nikki Giovanni,[object Object],NIKKI GIOVANNI is the author of thirteen books of poetry including Love Poems, for which she recieved an NAACP Image Award, and The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni.   ,[object Object],Giovanni holds the Langston Hughes Medal for Outstanding Poetry and has been names woman of the year by Mademoiselle, Ladies' Home Journal, and Essence.  A gardener and consummate lover of the blues, Giovanni is a professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic. ,[object Object]
Nikki Giovanni,[object Object],Nikki Giovanni is a world-renowned poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator.,[object Object], Over the past thirty years, her outspokenness, in her writing and in lectures, has brought the eyes of the world upon her. ,[object Object],One of the most widely-read American poets, she prides herself on being "a Black American, a daughter, a mother, a professor of English." ,[object Object],Giovanni remains as determined and committed as ever to the fight for civil rights and equality. Always insisting on presenting the truth as she sees it, she has maintained a prominent place as a strong voice of the Black community. Her focus is on the individual, specifically, on the power one has to make a difference in oneself, and thus, in the lives of others. ,[object Object]
Nikki Giovanni,[object Object],NIKKI GIOVANNI was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Lincoln Heights, an all-black suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. ,[object Object],She and her sister spent their summers with their grandparents in Knoxville, and she graduated with honors from Fisk University, her grandfather's alma mater, in 1968; after graduating from Fisk, she attended the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University.,[object Object], She published her first book of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, in 1968, and within the next year published a second book, thus launching her career as a writer.,[object Object], Early in her career she was dubbed the "Princess of Black Poetry," and over the course of more than three decades of publishing and lecturing she has come to be called both a "National Treasure" and, most recently, one of Oprah Winfrey's twenty-five "Living Legends.",[object Object]
Nikki Giovanni,[object Object]
Nikki Giovanni,[object Object]
In her first two collections, Black Feeling, Black Talk (1968) and Black Judgment (1969), Giovanni reflects on the African-American identity. ,[object Object],Recently, she has published Acolytes (HarperCollins, 2007), The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 (2003), Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not-Quite Poems (2002) Blues For All the Changes: New Poems (1999), Love Poems (1997), and Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni (1996).,[object Object]
Nikki Giovanni,[object Object],A lung cancer survivor, Giovanni has also contributed an introduction to the anthology Breaking the Silence: Inspirational Stories of Black Cancer Survivors (Hilton Publishing, 2005).,[object Object],Her honors include three NAACP Image Awards for Literature in 1998, the Langston Hughes award for Distinguished Contributions to Arts and Letters in 1996, as well as more than twenty honorary degrees from national colleges and universities. She has been given keys to more than a dozen cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Miami, and New Orleans.,[object Object]
NIKKI GIOVANNI,[object Object],Several magazines have named Giovanni Woman of the Year, including Essence, Mademoiselle, Ebony, and Ladies Home Journal. She was the first recipient of the Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award. She has served as poetry judge for the National Book Awards and was a finalist for a Grammy Award in the category of Spoken Word.,[object Object]
Nikki Giovanni,[object Object]

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