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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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Feeling
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Feelings
Distrust
Move
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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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We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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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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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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You're only as good as your last book.
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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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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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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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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as people, we as the human species have got to get used to the fact we're not going to be right most of the time, not even when our intentions are good. We've got to go naked and see what happens.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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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 you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.
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Black love is black wealth
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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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