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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

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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Truth
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as people, we as the human species have got to get used to the fact we're not going to be right most of the time, not even when our intentions are good. We've got to go naked and see what happens.
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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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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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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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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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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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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.
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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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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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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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You're only as good as your last book.
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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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God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.
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