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Survival Kit

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  Nikki Giovanni

  Nikki Giovanni has always forged her own path through life. She self-published her first volumes of poetry, Black Feeling, Black Talk and Black Judgement, because they were considered out of the mainstream at that time. And as a result, she became a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960’s. Over the years she's developed a loyal readership for the 2 dozen adult and children's books that followed; she became a single mother by choice long before it became fashionable, and in recent years she's revealed her fight against cancer (which she's faced with courage and humor.) Let’s see what this iconoclastic, independent woman has put into her Survival Kit.

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