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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

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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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Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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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 move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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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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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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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 don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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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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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.
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The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.
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I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
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Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
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