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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
Nikki Giovanni
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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.
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Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.
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School should be eleven months of the year.
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Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on. I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.
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I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
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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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Libraries...house our dreams.
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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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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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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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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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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.
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You're only as good as your last book.
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