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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.

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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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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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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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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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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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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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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.
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Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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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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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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[My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.
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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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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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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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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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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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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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