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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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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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God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.
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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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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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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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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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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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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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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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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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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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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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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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My dream is a red dress Above my knees High-heel red sandals And me coming over the top The music booming Hi Howie I will say With a lovely smile I don't want to play the game I want to be it.
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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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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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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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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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