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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
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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 must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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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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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
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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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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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Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
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If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.
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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 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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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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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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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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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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Death is a slave's freedom.
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