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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

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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Never
Wealth
Love
Probably
Quite
Talk
Happy
Understand
Black
Hard
Childhood

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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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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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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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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
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I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-
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I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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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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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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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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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 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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