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Libraries...house our dreams.

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
Jr
Libraries
Library
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Dream

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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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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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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
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We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.
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Black love is black wealth
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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 prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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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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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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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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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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School should be eleven months of the year.
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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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I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-
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