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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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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.
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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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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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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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Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.
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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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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people I do not lead the people.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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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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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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