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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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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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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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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 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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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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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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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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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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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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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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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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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our 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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School should be eleven months of the year.
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Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.
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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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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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