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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.

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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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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You're only as good as your last book.
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If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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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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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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[My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.
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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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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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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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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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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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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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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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School should be eleven months of the year.
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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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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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[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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