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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.
Nikki Giovanni
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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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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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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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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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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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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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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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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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Black love is black wealth
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
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Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
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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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The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.
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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.
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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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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
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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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