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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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You're only as good as your last book.
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We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.
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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.
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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, Why does Jesus' word still stay around? It's incredibly honest and it's good.
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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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If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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