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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

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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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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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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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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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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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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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 am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.
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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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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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I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction.
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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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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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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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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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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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A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.
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