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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.

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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Truth
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Country
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Obviously
Lies
Lying
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Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
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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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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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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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Libraries...house our dreams.
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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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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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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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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, Why does Jesus' word still stay around? It's incredibly honest and it's good.
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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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Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.
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School should be eleven months of the year.
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I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people I do not lead the people.
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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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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
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[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.
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Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
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