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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
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Everyone
Art
Sanctuary
Wells
Hearts
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Willing
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My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.
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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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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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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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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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Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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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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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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I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.
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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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Black love is black wealth
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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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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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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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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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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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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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