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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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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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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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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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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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Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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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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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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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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God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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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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