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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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Even
Hips
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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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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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.
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We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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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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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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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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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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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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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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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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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 move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-
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A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.
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