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

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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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You're only as good as your last book.
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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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I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of I want to tell the people.
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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 love because it's the only true adventure.
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Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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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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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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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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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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We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.
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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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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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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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