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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
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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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You're only as good as your last book.
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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
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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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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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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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[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 am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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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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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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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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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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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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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 obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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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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