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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

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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Conquer
Inspire
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Persons
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World

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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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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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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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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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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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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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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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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to try to do it it's what we [with Nina Simone] were to each other.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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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 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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School should be eleven months of the year.
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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 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 [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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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.
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