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We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

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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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Must
Tall
Brave
Cry
Laugh
Laughing
Stand
Strong
Enough
Bend

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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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I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.
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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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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as people, we as the human species have got to get used to the fact we're not going to be right most of the time, not even when our intentions are good. We've got to go naked and see what happens.
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The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself where once he had he, he now has she and they.
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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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Libraries...house our dreams.
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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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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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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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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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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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Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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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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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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