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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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Connections
Lonely
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Art
Connect
Connection

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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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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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You're only as good as your last book.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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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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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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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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I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
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