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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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Wrong
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Black
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Hesitate
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I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.
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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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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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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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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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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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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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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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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’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 love is black wealth
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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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[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.
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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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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction.
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Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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