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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

Nikki Giovanni

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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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Education
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Educational

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Death is a slave's freedom.
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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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and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it
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My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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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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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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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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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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If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.
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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
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