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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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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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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.
Nikki Giovanni
It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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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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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
Nikki Giovanni
I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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You're only as good as your last book.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
Nikki Giovanni
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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[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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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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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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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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Death is a slave's freedom.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
Nikki Giovanni
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Nikki Giovanni
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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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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