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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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Hips
Correct
Errors
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.
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Black love is black wealth
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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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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'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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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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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 think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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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 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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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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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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School should be eleven months of the year.
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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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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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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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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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If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.
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