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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.

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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Writers
Water
Fish
Fishes
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people I do not lead the people.
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My dream is a red dress Above my knees High-heel red sandals And me coming over the top The music booming Hi Howie I will say With a lovely smile I don't want to play the game I want to be it.
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You're only as good as your last book.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself where once he had he, he now has she and they.
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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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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
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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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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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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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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.
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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.
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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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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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