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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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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.
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Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
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We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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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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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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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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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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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.
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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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and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it
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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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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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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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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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