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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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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Connect
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Connections
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it
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Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor those who struggle are middle class.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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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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I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people I do not lead the people.
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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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The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.
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We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.
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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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The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.
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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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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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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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Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.
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