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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.

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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Riding
Shore
Slow
Clouds
Lows
Moon
Cloud
Floating

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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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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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The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
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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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If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.
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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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The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself where once he had he, he now has she and they.
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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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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Death is a slave's freedom.
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The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.
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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
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