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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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Summer
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Barefoot
Warmth
Bed

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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 write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.
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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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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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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'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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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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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.
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It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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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 obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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