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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.

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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[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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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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Libraries...house our dreams.
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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
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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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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
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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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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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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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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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