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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
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Taste
Art
Reality
Cultivated
Cultivate

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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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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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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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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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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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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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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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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 am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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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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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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Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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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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I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
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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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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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