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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
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Accidents
Tragedy
Nature
Cannot
Predict
Accident

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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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[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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Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
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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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The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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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 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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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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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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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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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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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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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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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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