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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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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Speak
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A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.
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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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Black love is black wealth
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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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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being Homo sapiens was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
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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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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
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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 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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Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
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We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to try to do it it's what we [with Nina Simone] were to each other.
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself where once he had he, he now has she and they.
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