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You're only as good as your last book.

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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 job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself where once he had he, he now has she and they.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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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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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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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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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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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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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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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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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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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as people, we as the human species have got to get used to the fact we're not going to be right most of the time, not even when our intentions are good. We've got to go naked and see what happens.
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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