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If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

Nikki Giovanni

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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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Back
Command
Firsts
Definitely
Come
Keys
First
Bird
Choice
Second
Choices
Anything

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You're only as good as your last book.
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on. I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.
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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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It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.
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The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people I do not lead the people.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
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The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.
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