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We love because it's the only true adventure.

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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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Heartbreak
Adventure
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Love
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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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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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.
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We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction.
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I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
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When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being Homo sapiens was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.
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If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.
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School should be eleven months of the year.
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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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Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.
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