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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
Sleep
Time
Barefoot
Warmth
Bed
Warm

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I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
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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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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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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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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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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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Black love is black wealth
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.
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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.
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[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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