"Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me."

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We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.

— Nikki Giovanni