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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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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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School should be eleven months of the year.
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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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We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to try to do it it's what we [with Nina Simone] were to each other.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.
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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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Black love is black wealth
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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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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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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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 so hip even my errors are correct
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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on. I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.
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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.
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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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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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