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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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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
Jr
Best
Everything
Come
Believe

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Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.
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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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[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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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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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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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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Libraries...house our dreams.
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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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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.
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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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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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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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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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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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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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