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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.

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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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
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We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
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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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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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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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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.
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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.
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The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
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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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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.
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I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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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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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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