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We love because it's the only true adventure.

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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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Love
Life
Adventuring
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Heartbreak
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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
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Black love is black wealth
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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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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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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I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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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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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.
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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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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
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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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[My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.
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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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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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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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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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