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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.

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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Spiritual
Moments
Courtship
Affinity
Even
Offspring
Years
Created
Love
Generations
Unless
Moment

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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself where once he had he, he now has she and they.
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I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-
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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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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.
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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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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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Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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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 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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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.
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If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
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