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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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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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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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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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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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A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
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Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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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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If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.
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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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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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