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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
Nikki Giovanni
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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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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.
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I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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My dream is a red dress Above my knees High-heel red sandals And me coming over the top The music booming Hi Howie I will say With a lovely smile I don't want to play the game I want to be it.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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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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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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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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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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Death is a slave's freedom.
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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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I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
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We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to try to do it it's what we [with Nina Simone] were to each other.
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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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You're only as good as your last book.
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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.
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