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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.

Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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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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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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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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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
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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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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
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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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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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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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Black love is black wealth
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.
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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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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 are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to try to do it it's what we [with Nina Simone] were to each other.
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Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.
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You're only as good as your last book.
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