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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
Jr
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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.
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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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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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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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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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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
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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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When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being Homo sapiens was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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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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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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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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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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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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