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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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Actually
Experience
Ever
Human
Humans
Fascinated
Beings

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I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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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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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
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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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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.
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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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We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.
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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on. I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.
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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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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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