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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.

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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Human
Humans
Fascinated
Beings
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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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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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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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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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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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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I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.
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You're only as good as your last book.
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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction.
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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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My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.
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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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The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
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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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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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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.
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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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