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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.

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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Black
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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
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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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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it
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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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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 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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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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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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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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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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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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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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Libraries...house our dreams.
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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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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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