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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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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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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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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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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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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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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.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction.
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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.
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It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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