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The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.

Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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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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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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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
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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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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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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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Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, Why does Jesus' word still stay around? It's incredibly honest and it's good.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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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 think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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