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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
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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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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Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
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My dream is a red dress Above my knees High-heel red sandals And me coming over the top The music booming Hi Howie I will say With a lovely smile I don't want to play the game I want to be it.
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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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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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.
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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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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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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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