Nikki Giovanni

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This paper has references to her poems, "Beautiful Black Men (with compliments and apologies to all not mentioned by name)", "Nikki-Rosa", "Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day", and "My House". This paper also has references to four critics of the poems. The first paragraph of this paper is her biography.

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"Nikki Giovanni was born Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr. in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1943. When she was a child her family moved to Lincoln Heights, Ohio, in a black community. She spent time partly with her grandparents in Tennessee, though. Graduating from Fisk University with honors, she then attended the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. At the age of 27, she found her own publishing company. She became not only a poet, but also a writer, essayist, editor, and an author of children's books. Despite childhood loneliness, Nikki Giovanni, as an adult, developed a strong sense of pride in her ethnicity."

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