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Nikki Giovanni: It's not a...

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It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.

Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
-- Nikki Giovanni, (Jun 7 1943-____), US author, poet; The Princess of Black Poetry wrote My House, 1972 and The Women and the Men, 1975.


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