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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

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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Inspire
Starting
Persons
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Time
World
Conquer

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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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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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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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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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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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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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School should be eleven months of the year.
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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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God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.
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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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When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being Homo sapiens was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
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Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor those who struggle are middle class.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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