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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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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Taken
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Life
Incidents
Entity
Stands
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Personality
Alone

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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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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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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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The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.
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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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[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.
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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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I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people I do not lead the people.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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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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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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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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I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction.
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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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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
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