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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
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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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 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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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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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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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 am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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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.
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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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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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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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 used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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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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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
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Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, Why does Jesus' word still stay around? It's incredibly honest and it's good.
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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