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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
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Poems
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Definitely
Hurt
Feelings
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Others
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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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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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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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It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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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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and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it
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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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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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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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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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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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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 think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
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Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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