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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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Fishes
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Anger
Writers
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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.
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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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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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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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When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being Homo sapiens was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.
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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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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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My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.
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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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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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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 am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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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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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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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 knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of I want to tell the people.
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