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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.

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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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Speeches
Fresh
Fruit
Speech
Always
Think
Thinking

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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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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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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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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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Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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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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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 am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
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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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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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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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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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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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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being Homo sapiens was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.
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We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to try to do it it's what we [with Nina Simone] were to each other.
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We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.
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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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