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

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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 understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.
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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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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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The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
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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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We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.
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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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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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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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If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.
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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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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people I do not lead the people.
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