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The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself where once he had he, he now has she and they.

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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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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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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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of I want to tell the people.
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My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.
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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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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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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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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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School should be eleven months of the year.
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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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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
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