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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
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Black
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Deals
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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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Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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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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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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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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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.
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