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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.

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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Seldom
Goes
Face
Faces
White
Black
Mind
Blackface
Occasionally

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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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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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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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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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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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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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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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A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.
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I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on. I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.
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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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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
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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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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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