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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.

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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Play
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World
Seriously
Active
Baseball
Already
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Tranquil
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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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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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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.
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You're only as good as your last book.
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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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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.
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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as people, we as the human species have got to get used to the fact we're not going to be right most of the time, not even when our intentions are good. We've got to go naked and see what happens.
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