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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

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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Learned
Feeling
Moving
Feelings
Distrust

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I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
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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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