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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
Jr
Black
Love
Wealth

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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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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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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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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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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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Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
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The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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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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