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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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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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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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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.
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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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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.
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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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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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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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God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction.
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We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.
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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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Black love is black wealth
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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 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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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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