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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.

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 appreciate and enjoy my age.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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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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You're only as good as your last book.
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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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Death is a slave's freedom.
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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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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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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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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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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as people, we as the human species have got to get used to the fact we're not going to be right most of the time, not even when our intentions are good. We've got to go naked and see what happens.
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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 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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Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
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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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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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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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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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