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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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Naked
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Refuse
People
Inspiring
Happen
Dies
Happens
Guarantee
Reality
Guarantees
Without

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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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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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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor those who struggle are middle class.
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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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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.
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Black love is black wealth
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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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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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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