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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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Distrust
Move
Learned
Feeling
Moving
Feelings

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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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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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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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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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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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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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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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Black love is black wealth
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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