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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.

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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Brave
Cry
Laugh
Laughing
Stand
Strong
Enough
Bend
Must
Tall

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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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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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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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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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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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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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Black love is black wealth
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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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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