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Black love is black wealth

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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Wealth
Black
Love

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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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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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Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
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Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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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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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
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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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[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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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.
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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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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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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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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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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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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
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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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