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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.

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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Facts
People

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and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.
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I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to try to do it it's what we [with Nina Simone] were to each other.
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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.
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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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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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