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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
Jr
Believe
Best
Everything
Come

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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 must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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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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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
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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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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’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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If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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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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My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
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