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

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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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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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If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.
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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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We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.
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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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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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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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