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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.

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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Better
Think
Thinking

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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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The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself where once he had he, he now has she and they.
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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 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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I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people I do not lead the people.
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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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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The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
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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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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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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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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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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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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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