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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
Jr
Toward
Objects
Particular
Photographers
Eye
Directing
Write
Hopes
Soul
Photographer
Writing
Object
Heart
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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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We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.
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Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.
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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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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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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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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 am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on. I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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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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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.
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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 have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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