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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.

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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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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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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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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