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Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

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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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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