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

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Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter 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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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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I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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School should be eleven months of the year.
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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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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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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
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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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A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being Homo sapiens was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.
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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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