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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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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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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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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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My dream is a red dress Above my knees High-heel red sandals And me coming over the top The music booming Hi Howie I will say With a lovely smile I don't want to play the game I want to be it.
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You're only as good as your last book.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.
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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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[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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I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
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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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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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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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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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