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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep

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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Warmth
Bed
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Summer
Sleep
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Barefoot

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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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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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Libraries...house our dreams.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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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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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-
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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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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.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
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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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If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.
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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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Black love is black wealth
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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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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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