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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
Slavery
Slave
Freedom
Death

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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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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.
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I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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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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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of I want to tell the people.
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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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[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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If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.
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My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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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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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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