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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
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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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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You're only as good as your last book.
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
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School should be eleven months of the year.
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Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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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 white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.
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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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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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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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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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