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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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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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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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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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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
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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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Death is a slave's freedom.
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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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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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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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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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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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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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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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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.
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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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You're only as good as your last book.
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