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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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Obviously
Lies
Lying
Living
Truth
Need
Country
Needs

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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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My dream is a red dress Above my knees High-heel red sandals And me coming over the top The music booming Hi Howie I will say With a lovely smile I don't want to play the game I want to be it.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as people, we as the human species have got to get used to the fact we're not going to be right most of the time, not even when our intentions are good. We've got to go naked and see what happens.
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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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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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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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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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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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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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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
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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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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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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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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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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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