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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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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Think
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Push
Useless
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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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[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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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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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-
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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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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
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My dream is a red dress Above my knees High-heel red sandals And me coming over the top The music booming Hi Howie I will say With a lovely smile I don't want to play the game I want to be it.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.
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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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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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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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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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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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Libraries...house our dreams.
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