Nikki Giovanni Quotes - Page 7

• Los fanáticos son, por un lado, aburridos y, por otro, poco fiables. Tienden a quemarse justo cuando los necesitas.

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  Needs, Boring, Burn Out

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). "Vacas sagradas... y otros comestibles", William Morrow & Co.

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• I am a big fan of the electronic book. I hate to see the old bookstores close, but they have to reinvent themselves. I believe the First Edition bookstore will be the next thing. People will read electronically, then decide they want to own that book. The author will then be invited to the old bookstores to sign. I think books will always be with us, but they will fill a different need.

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  Hate, Book, Believe

  "Nikki Giovanni - Celebrity Guest Author Interview". Interview with Cheryl Holloway, www.cherylholloway.net. February 14, 2014.

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• I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.

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  Listening, Trying, Attention

  Fuente: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

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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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  Life, Taken, Personality

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• Death is a slave's freedom.

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  Slavery, Slave

  Nikki Giovanni (1993). “Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People”, p.28, Chicago Review Press

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• We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.

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  Believe, Rabbits, Potters

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• Alguna vez has sido secuestrado por un poeta si yo fuera poeta te secuestraría te pondría en mis frases y metro.

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  Poetry, Phrases, Meter

  Nikki Giovanni (2009). “Love Poems”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• We are all either wheels or connectors. Whichever we are we must find truth and balance, which is a bicycle. Trust and balance are also essential to true love.

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  Balance, Essentials, Wheels

  Fuente: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

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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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  Mistake, Young Writers, No Fear

  Fuente: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

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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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  People, Want, Saws

  Fuente: www.theroot.com

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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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  Thinking, People, Stranger

  "Nikki Giovanni on Her Friend Nina Simone: If She Were Here, She'd Be Wearing a 'Black Lives Matter' T-Shirt". Interview with Lottie L. Joiner, www.theroot.com. July 20, 2016.

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• I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.

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  Art, Thinking, Nina

  "Nikki Giovanni on Her Friend Nina Simone: If She Were Here, She'd Be Wearing a 'Black Lives Matter' T-Shirt". Interview with Lottie L. Joiner, www.theroot.com. July 20, 2016.

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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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  Struggle, Thinking, Class

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). "Vacas sagradas... y otros comestibles", William Morrow & Co.

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• One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.

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  Reality, Ideas, United States

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). "Racismo 101", William Morrow & Co.

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• Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.

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  People, Over You, Tools

  Nikki Giovanni (2009). “The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

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  Player, Civilization, Tennis

  "Living Legends: An Interview With the Incomparable Nikki Giovanni". Interview with Matthew Lynch, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2012.

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• Solía ir a su casa. Ella vivía al norte del estado [en New York] y yo en Manhattan; vives en medio de mucho ruido y mi carrera se estaba construyendo. Para mí, pasar tiempo con Nina [Simone] es pasar mucho tiempo tranquilo.

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  New York, Careers, House

  "Nikki Giovanni on Her Friend Nina Simone: If She Were Here, She'd Be Wearing a 'Black Lives Matter' T-Shirt". Interview with Lottie L. Joiner, www.theroot.com. July 20, 2016.

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• Estoy orgulloso de la generación del hip hop. Son buenos empresarios y, en realidad, buenas personas. Es extraño que la prensa importante sólo hable de ellos cuando matan a alguien o se droga o algo así; sin embargo, son los mismos que convirtieron en héroes a la mafia y a otros delincuentes.

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  Hero, People, Hip Hop

  Fuente: www.huffingtonpost.com

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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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  Hurt, Children, Feelings

  "Living Legends: An Interview With the Incomparable Nikki Giovanni". Interview with Matthew Lynch, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

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  Stories, Storyteller

  "Nikki Giovanni: Personal Politics". Interview with Nicole Sealey for Mosaic Magazine, No. 22, mosaicmagazine.org. August 1, 2008.

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• I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.

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  Summer, Nice, Garden

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• Mucha gente se niega a hacer cosas porque no quiere ir desnuda... . Nosotros, como negros, como personas, como especie humana, tenemos que acostumbrarnos al hecho de que no vamos a tener razón la mayoría de las veces, ni siquiera cuando nuestras intenciones son buenas. Tenemos que desnudarnos y ver qué pasa.

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  People, Black, Naked

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• Paso mucho tiempo aprendiendo sobre la observación de aves.

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  Bird, Bird Watching

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• Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.

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  School, Snacks, Lunch

  Fuente: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• La enseñanza de idiomas debe comenzar en el primer curso. La escritura, también.

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  Writing, Firsts, Language

  Fuente: www.huffingtonpost.com

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