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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
Nikki Giovanni
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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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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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The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
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If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.
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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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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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[My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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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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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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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.
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