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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
Dreams
House
Dream

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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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School should be eleven months of the year.
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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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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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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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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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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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My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.
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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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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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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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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being Homo sapiens was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.
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Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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