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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.

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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Single
Intact
Pretty
Praise
Black
Group
Women
Identity
West
However
Shaky
Anybody
Derives
Groups
Praises

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Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor those who struggle are middle class.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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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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A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.
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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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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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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
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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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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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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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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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Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.
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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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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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