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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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The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself where once he had he, he now has she and they.
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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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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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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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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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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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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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I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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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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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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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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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
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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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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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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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Black love is black wealth
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