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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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People
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Jesus
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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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We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.
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A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.
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We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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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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and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.
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Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.
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It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, Why does Jesus' word still stay around? It's incredibly honest and it's good.
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