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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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My dream is a red dress Above my knees High-heel red sandals And me coming over the top The music booming Hi Howie I will say With a lovely smile I don't want to play the game I want to be it.
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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 have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
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I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction.
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Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
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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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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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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 am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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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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