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When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being Homo sapiens was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.

Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
Jr
Younger
Communicate
Communication
Learned
Though
Sapiens
Thought
Particulars
Trying
Homo
Cautious

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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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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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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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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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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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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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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 are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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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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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
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We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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