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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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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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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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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 are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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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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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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I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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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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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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If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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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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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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