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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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Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.
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School should be eleven months of the year.
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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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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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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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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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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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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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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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If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
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When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being Homo sapiens was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.
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Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.
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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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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as people, we as the human species have got to get used to the fact we're not going to be right most of the time, not even when our intentions are good. We've got to go naked and see what happens.
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