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Who I really am keeps surprising me.

Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
Jr
Surprising
Keeps
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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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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.
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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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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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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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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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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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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 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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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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Black love is black wealth
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