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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
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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 always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
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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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It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor those who struggle are middle class.
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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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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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Black love is black wealth
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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School should be eleven months of the year.
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Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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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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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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I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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