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I appreciate and enjoy my age.

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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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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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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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 have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction.
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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of I want to tell the people.
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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 wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.
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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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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.
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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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Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
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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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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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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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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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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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