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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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Fish
Fishes
Rage
Anger
Writers
Water

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Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.
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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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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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Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
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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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Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
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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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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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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 buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.
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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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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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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 now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
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