1. The only predominately Black university in the state of Tennessee that is worthy of the name.

2. The home of the world famous Fisk Jubilee Singers.

3. A school where as a freshman you can do work-study as a tenured professor at the pre-penitentiary called Tennessee State

4. The older sibling to every university in Nashville, Tennessee

5. The jewel of the Black Ivy-League
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Tennessee State University student: Damn professor, you must have graduated from an amazing university to be such a brilliant lecturer.

Fisk University student: Well actually, I haven't graduated from college yet, I am a freshman at Fisk University, I volunteered to help teach the hopelessly illiterate, and they sent me here.

Tennessee State University student: That explains alot. (gets on floor and grovels.) I am not worthy.
by Blackashell October 3, 2011
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