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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

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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Push
Useless
Image
Follow
Matter
Think
Thinking

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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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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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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 work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.
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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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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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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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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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I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on. I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.
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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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Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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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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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.
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