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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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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Fascinate
Like
Frightening
People
Acceptable
Learned
Saying
Away
Without
Even

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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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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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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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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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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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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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If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.
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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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Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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School should be eleven months of the year.
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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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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
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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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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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