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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 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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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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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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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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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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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
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and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it
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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as people, we as the human species have got to get used to the fact we're not going to be right most of the time, not even when our intentions are good. We've got to go naked and see what happens.
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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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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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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.
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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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If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.
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You're only as good as your last book.
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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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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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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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