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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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Affinity
Years
Offspring
Love
Created
Generations
Unless
Moment
Spiritual
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Courtship

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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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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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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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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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You're only as good as your last book.
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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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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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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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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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Libraries...house our dreams.
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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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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.
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I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on. I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.
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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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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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I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.
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