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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
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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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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and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it
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A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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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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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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School should be eleven months of the year.
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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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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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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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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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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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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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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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