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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
Jr
Art
Connect
Connection
Connections
Lonely
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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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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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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 lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.
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I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
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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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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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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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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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School should be eleven months of the year.
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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 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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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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