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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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Fruit
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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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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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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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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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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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The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
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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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I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
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If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.
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We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.
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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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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 have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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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 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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A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.
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Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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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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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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