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Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.
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 prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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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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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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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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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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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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Death is a slave's freedom.
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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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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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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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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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