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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

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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Push
Useless
Image
Follow
Matter
Think
Thinking

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Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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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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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
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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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