diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index acfe722f..3e0acf32 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -917,7 +917,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "oxilangtag",
  "oxiri",
  "rand",
- "rio_api",
  "sophia_api",
 ]
 
diff --git a/lib/oxrdf/Cargo.toml b/lib/oxrdf/Cargo.toml
index d3d86f31..23405d72 100644
--- a/lib/oxrdf/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lib/oxrdf/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,8 +20,7 @@ rdf-star = []
 rand = "0.8"
 oxilangtag = "0.1"
 oxiri = "0.1"
-rio_api = "0.6"
-lasso = {version="0.6", features=["multi-threaded", "inline-more"]}
+lasso = { version="0.6", features = ["multi-threaded", "inline-more"] }
 sophia_api = { version = "0.7", optional = true }
 
 [package.metadata.docs.rs]
diff --git a/lib/oxrdf/src/blank_node.rs b/lib/oxrdf/src/blank_node.rs
index 08f9de57..f9e2e730 100644
--- a/lib/oxrdf/src/blank_node.rs
+++ b/lib/oxrdf/src/blank_node.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 use rand::random;
-use rio_api::model as rio;
 use std::error::Error;
 use std::fmt;
 use std::io::Write;
@@ -211,7 +210,7 @@ impl<'a> BlankNodeRef<'a> {
 impl fmt::Display for BlankNodeRef<'_> {
     #[inline]
     fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
-        rio::BlankNode { id: self.as_str() }.fmt(f)
+        write!(f, "_:{}", self.as_str())
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/lib/oxrdf/src/literal.rs b/lib/oxrdf/src/literal.rs
index e65fc71b..47ed8d07 100644
--- a/lib/oxrdf/src/literal.rs
+++ b/lib/oxrdf/src/literal.rs
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ use crate::vocab::rdf;
 use crate::vocab::xsd;
 use crate::NamedNodeRef;
 use oxilangtag::{LanguageTag, LanguageTagParseError};
-use rio_api::model as rio;
 use std::borrow::Cow;
 use std::fmt;
+use std::fmt::Write;
 use std::option::Option;
 
 /// An owned RDF [literal](https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/#dfn-literal)
@@ -437,18 +437,16 @@ impl fmt::Display for LiteralRef<'_> {
     #[inline]
     fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
         match self.0 {
-            LiteralRefContent::String(value) => rio::Literal::Simple { value },
+            LiteralRefContent::String(value) => print_quoted_str(value, f),
             LiteralRefContent::LanguageTaggedString { value, language } => {
-                rio::Literal::LanguageTaggedString { value, language }
+                print_quoted_str(value, f)?;
+                write!(f, "@{}", language)
+            }
+            LiteralRefContent::TypedLiteral { value, datatype } => {
+                print_quoted_str(value, f)?;
+                write!(f, "^^{}", datatype)
             }
-            LiteralRefContent::TypedLiteral { value, datatype } => rio::Literal::Typed {
-                value,
-                datatype: rio::NamedNode {
-                    iri: datatype.as_str(),
-                },
-            },
         }
-        .fmt(f)
     }
 }
 
@@ -487,6 +485,21 @@ impl PartialEq<LiteralRef<'_>> for Literal {
     }
 }
 
+#[inline]
+pub(crate) fn print_quoted_str(string: &str, f: &mut impl Write) -> fmt::Result {
+    f.write_char('"')?;
+    for c in string.chars() {
+        match c {
+            '\n' => f.write_str("\\n"),
+            '\r' => f.write_str("\\r"),
+            '"' => f.write_str("\\\""),
+            '\\' => f.write_str("\\\\"),
+            c => f.write_char(c),
+        }?;
+    }
+    f.write_char('"')
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
diff --git a/lib/oxrdf/src/named_node.rs b/lib/oxrdf/src/named_node.rs
index 51d98975..d81bee15 100644
--- a/lib/oxrdf/src/named_node.rs
+++ b/lib/oxrdf/src/named_node.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 use oxiri::{Iri, IriParseError};
-use rio_api::model as rio;
 use std::fmt;
 
 /// An owned RDF [IRI](https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/#dfn-iri)
@@ -143,7 +142,7 @@ impl<'a> NamedNodeRef<'a> {
 impl fmt::Display for NamedNodeRef<'_> {
     #[inline]
     fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
-        rio::NamedNode { iri: self.as_str() }.fmt(f)
+        write!(f, "<{}>", self.as_str())
     }
 }