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If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.

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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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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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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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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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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Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
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I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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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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