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Nikki Giovanni Inspirational Quotes (107)

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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
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The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself where once he had he, he now has she and they.
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I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.
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Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor those who struggle are middle class.
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.
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Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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My dream is a red dress Above my knees High-heel red sandals And me coming over the top The music booming Hi Howie I will say With a lovely smile I don't want to play the game I want to be it.
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Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
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We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.
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