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Nikki Giovanni

"Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste."

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"Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste."

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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

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"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."

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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

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"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

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"The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots."

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"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."

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"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

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"Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing."

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"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."

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"White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus."
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"You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play."
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"There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave."
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"We love because it's the only true adventure."
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"I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try."
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"When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again."
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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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"Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying."
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"Sacred cows make very poor gladiators."
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"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."
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