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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 knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of I want to tell the people.
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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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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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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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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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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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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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[My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.
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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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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 not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.
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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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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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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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