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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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People
Acceptable
Learned
Saying
Away
Without
Even
Way
Fascinate
Like
Frightening

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I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on. I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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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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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
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and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it
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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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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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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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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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