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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
Nikki Giovanni
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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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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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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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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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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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Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, Why does Jesus' word still stay around? It's incredibly honest and it's good.
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We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.
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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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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.
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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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You're only as good as your last book.
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Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
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