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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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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Music
Honest
Good
Saying
Like
Word
Jesus
Around
Stills
Nina
Doe
Incredibly
Still
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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
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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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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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[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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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
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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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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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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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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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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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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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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself where once he had he, he now has she and they.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.
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When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being Homo sapiens was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.
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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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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.
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