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Death is a slave's freedom.

Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
Jr
Death
Slavery
Slave
Freedom

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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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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as people, we as the human species have got to get used to the fact we're not going to be right most of the time, not even when our intentions are good. We've got to go naked and see what happens.
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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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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-
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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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The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
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I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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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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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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