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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
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Sick
Responsibility
Adulthood
Class
Responsibilities
Mind
Rings
Really
Wearing
People
Grown
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Adults

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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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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
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Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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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 think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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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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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.
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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, Why does Jesus' word still stay around? It's incredibly honest and it's good.
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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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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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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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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 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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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.
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