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Libraries...house our dreams.

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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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Library
Dreams
House
Dream
Libraries

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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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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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Black love is black wealth
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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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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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.
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Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
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I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of I want to tell the people.
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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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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
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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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[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.
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I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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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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The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.
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