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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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Right
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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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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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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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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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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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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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We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.
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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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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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