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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
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Death
Slavery
Slave
Freedom

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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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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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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
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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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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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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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We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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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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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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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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Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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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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