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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.

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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Life
Incidents
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Personality
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My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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