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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
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Freedom
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Harriet
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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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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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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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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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You're only as good as your last book.
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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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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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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.
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A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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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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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.
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Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
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If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.
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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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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.
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