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Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.

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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Come
Believe
Best
Everything

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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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Black love is black wealth
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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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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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.
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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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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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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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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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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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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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Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor those who struggle are middle class.
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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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The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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