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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Adventure
True
Love
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.
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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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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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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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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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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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My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.
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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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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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If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.
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and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it
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Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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