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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
Jr
Cultivated
Cultivate
Taste
Art
Reality

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A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.
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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.
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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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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
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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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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 obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.
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I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.
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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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If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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Black love is black wealth
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My dream is a red dress Above my knees High-heel red sandals And me coming over the top The music booming Hi Howie I will say With a lovely smile I don't want to play the game I want to be it.
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