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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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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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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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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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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 [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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I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on. I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.
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My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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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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