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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.

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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Speeches
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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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Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor those who struggle are middle class.
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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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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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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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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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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.
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Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, Why does Jesus' word still stay around? It's incredibly honest and it's good.
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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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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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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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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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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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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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We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.
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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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