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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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Willing
Open
Eyes
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Everyone
Art
Sanctuary
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We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.
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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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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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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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Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, Why does Jesus' word still stay around? It's incredibly honest and it's good.
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The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself where once he had he, he now has she and they.
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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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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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We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to try to do it it's what we [with Nina Simone] were to each other.
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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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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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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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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
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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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A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.
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