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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

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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Black
Really
People
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Deals
Jesus
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.
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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people I do not lead the people.
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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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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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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 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 women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.
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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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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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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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If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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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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The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
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