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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
Connection
Connections
Lonely
Less
Art

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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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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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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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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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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.
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Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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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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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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[My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
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I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction.
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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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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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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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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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