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I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.

Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Nina
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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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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 offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.
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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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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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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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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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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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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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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good 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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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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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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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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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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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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