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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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Personality
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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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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
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I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.
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A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.
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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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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.
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School should be eleven months of the year.
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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on. I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.
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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.
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, Why does Jesus' word still stay around? It's incredibly honest and it's good.
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