[to Become A Poet] The Most Important Thing Is To Pay Attention. The Next Would Probably Be To Read; It's So Important To Pay Attention. It Keeps You From Being Bored, And I Might Add It Keeps You From Being Boorish.

-Nikki Giovanni

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[to Become A Poet] The Most Important

Nikki Giovanni

[to Become A Poet] The Most Important Thing Is To Pay Attention. The Next Would Probably Be To Read; It's So Important To Pay Attention. It Keeps You From Being Bored, And I Might Add It Keeps You From Being Boorish.

Topic

There Are Things You Stand Up For Because It’s Right.

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.

Reading

Writing

Mean

I Am Proud Of The Hip Hop Generation. They Are Good Business People And, Actually, Good People.

People

Hip Hop

Generations

The Unwillingness To Try Is Worse Than Any Failure.

Trying