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Bassey Ikpi is a Nigerian-born American spoken-word artist, writer, and mental health advocate. She has appeared on HBO's Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry five times and her poetry has opened shows for Grammy Award-winning artists.

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I don’t profess to be any one religion, I think all religions are flawed because people are flawed. But we have the potential and capacity to be bigger than our flaws.

It is the poets who tell the stories in a rhythm that forces the masses and the aristocracy to listen.

Poetry, and art in general, allows us to take what is around us and set it on fire. It is the tool we use to enact and document change.

Poetry has been an instrument of change and revolution since it existed. It is protest and defiance and celebration and a love anthem. It is how we communicate so of course it is also how we enact change.

....The talent is here. The opportunities aren't. And it is the opportunities that foster growth.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bassey Ikpi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.