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Nikki Giovanni
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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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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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Libraries...house our dreams.
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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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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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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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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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.
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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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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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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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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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Black love is black wealth
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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.
Nikki Giovanni
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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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
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