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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.

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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Write
Hopes
Soul
Photographer
Writing
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Heart
Direct
Toward
Objects
Particular
Photographers
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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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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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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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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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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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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.
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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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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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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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