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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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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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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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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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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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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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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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We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.
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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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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
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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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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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