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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
Need
Country
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Obviously
Lies
Lying
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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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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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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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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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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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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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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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Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.
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School should be eleven months of the year.
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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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