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And like an unfaithful mate, once a car has let you down you never sort of trust it again.
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The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.
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The very fact... that something has
been done... over and over again...
is one reason... to change...
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No one said a word... in 1776...
to us about Freedom
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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America may not be the best nation on earth, but it has conceived loftier ideals and dreamed higher dreams than any other nation. America is a heterogeneous nation of many different people of different races, religions, and creeds. Should this experiment go forth and prosper, we will have offered humans a new way to look at life; should it fail, we will simply go the way of all failed civilizations.
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It's a sex object if you're pretty
and no love
or love and no sex if you're fat
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Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean a lot to me, just interesting, so I both embrace and attack the ideas because I found them, well, delightful.
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I would not reject
my strength
though its source
is not choice
but responsibility
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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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I wrote a good omelet... and ate a hot poem...
after loving you Buttoned my car... and drove my coat home... in the
rain... after loving you
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We didn't write a constitution... we live one... We didn't say "We the People"... we are one... We didn't have to add... as an afterthought... "Under God"... We turn our faces to the rising sun... knowing... a New Day... is always... beginning
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I just wanta say just gotta say something
bout those beautiful beautiful beautiful outasight
black men
with they afros
walking down they street
is the same ol danger
but a brand new pleasure.
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You my children of battle, are your heroes
You must invent your own games and teach us old ones
how to play
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If loneliness were a grape
the wine would be vintage
If it were a wood
the furniture would be mahogany
But since it is life it is
Cotton Candy
on a rainy day
The sweet soft essence
of possibility
Never quite maturing
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I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though many are hesitant to admit that they don't. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
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You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
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Most of us love from our need to love not
because we find someone deserving.
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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We are all more than our experiences
And less than our dreams.
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I grow old though pleased with my memories The tasks I can no longer complete Are balanced by the love of the tasks gone past I offer no apology only this plea: When I am frayed and strained and drizzle at the end Please someone cut a square and put me in a quilt That I might keep some child warm And some old person with no one else to talk to Will hear my whispers And cuddle near
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We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
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I gotta say something
about those beautiful outasight
black men
with they afros
walking down they street
is the same old danger
but a brand new pleasure.
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I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.
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Nikki Giovanni
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Born:
June 7, 1943
(age 80)
Bio:
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator.
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