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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
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.
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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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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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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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My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.
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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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Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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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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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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It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.
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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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