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The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.

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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Trip
Mars
Americans
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Black

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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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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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You're only as good as your last book.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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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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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.
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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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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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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor those who struggle are middle class.
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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 need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
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Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
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