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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
School

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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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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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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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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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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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[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.
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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as people, we as the human species have got to get used to the fact we're not going to be right most of the time, not even when our intentions are good. We've got to go naked and see what happens.
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on. I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.
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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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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.
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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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