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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.

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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Happens
Reality
Guarantee
Without
Guarantees
Things
Naked
People
Refuse
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Happen
Dies

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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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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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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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Libraries...house our dreams.
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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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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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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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.
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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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We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to try to do it it's what we [with Nina Simone] were to each other.
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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being Homo sapiens was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.
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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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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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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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