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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
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Potters
Rabbits
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Beatrix
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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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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Death is a slave's freedom.
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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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Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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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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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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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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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.
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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it
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[My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.
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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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Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
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I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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