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Death is a slave's freedom.

Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
Jr
Slavery
Slave
Freedom
Death

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If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.
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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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Black love is black wealth
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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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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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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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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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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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