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

Nikki Giovanni

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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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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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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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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 knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of I want to tell the people.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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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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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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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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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.
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Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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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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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 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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We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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