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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
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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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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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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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.
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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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God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.
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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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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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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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If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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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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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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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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I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
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