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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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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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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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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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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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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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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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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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School should be eleven months of the year.
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.
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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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Death is a slave's freedom.
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Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.
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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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Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
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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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