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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.

Nikki Giovanni

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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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Choice
Second
Choices
Anything
Back
Command
Firsts
Definitely
Come
Keys
First
Bird

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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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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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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
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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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We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people I do not lead the people.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.
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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 believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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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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School should be eleven months of the year.
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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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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
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