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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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Face
Faces
White
Black
Mind
Blackface
Occasionally
Seldom
Goes

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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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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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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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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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[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.
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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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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, Why does Jesus' word still stay around? It's incredibly honest and it's good.
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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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