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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as people, we as the human species have got to get used to the fact we're not going to be right most of the time, not even when our intentions are good. We've got to go naked and see what happens.
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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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[My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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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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We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.
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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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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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Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.
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You're only as good as your last book.
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A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.
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I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
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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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We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.
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