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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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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on. I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.
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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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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 think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
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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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Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor those who struggle are middle class.
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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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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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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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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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