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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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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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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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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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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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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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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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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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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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Libraries...house our dreams.
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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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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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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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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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We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to try to do it it's what we [with Nina Simone] were to each other.
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A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.
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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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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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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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