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You're only as good as your last book.

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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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
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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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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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Black love is black wealth
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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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School should be eleven months of the year.
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I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people I do not lead the people.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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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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A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.
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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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I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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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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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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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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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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