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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

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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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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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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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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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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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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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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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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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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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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to try to do it it's what we [with Nina Simone] were to each other.
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Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.
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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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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
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