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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
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.
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My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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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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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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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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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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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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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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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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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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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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