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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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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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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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We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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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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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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Libraries...house our dreams.
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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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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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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.
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I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
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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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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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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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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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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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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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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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