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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
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Teacher
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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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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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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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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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I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.
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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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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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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.
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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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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.
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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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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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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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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor those who struggle are middle class.
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