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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
Jr
Stills
Nina
Doe
Incredibly
Still
Stay
Music
Honest
Good
Saying
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Word
Jesus
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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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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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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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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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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Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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You're only as good as your last book.
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My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on. I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.
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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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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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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.
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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 need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.
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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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