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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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Love
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Generations
Unless
Moment
Spiritual
Moments
Courtship
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Affinity

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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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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.
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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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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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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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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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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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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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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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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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School should be eleven months of the year.
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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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Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
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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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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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I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction.
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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
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