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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.

Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
Jr
Freedom
Free
Many
Make
People
Harriet
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We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.
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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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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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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 of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on. I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.
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A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.
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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
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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.
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Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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Black love is black wealth
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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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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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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