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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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Thoughts
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Speak
Never

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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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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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My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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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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The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
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We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of I want to tell the people.
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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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Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.
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A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.
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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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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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I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people I do not lead the people.
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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