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A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.

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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Occasionally
Seldom
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Faces
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Black
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Blackface

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Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.
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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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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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Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction.
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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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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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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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Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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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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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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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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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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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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