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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
Jr
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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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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 lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-
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Black love is black wealth
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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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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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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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Who I am really 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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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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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 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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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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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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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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