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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.
Nikki Giovanni
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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
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Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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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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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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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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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being Homo sapiens was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.
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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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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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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
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We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.
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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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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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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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