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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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Simply
Success
Things

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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.
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My dream is a red dress Above my knees High-heel red sandals And me coming over the top The music booming Hi Howie I will say With a lovely smile I don't want to play the game I want to be it.
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The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.
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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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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other 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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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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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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