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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.

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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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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
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I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.
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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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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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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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Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
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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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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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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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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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Death is a slave's freedom.
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.
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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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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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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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Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
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If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.
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