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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.

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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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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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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A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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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 love because it's the only true adventure.
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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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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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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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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.
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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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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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