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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
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Libraries
Library
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Dream

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You're only as good as your last book.
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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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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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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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.
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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 think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.
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Black love is black wealth
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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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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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School should be eleven months of the year.
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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 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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If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.
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Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, Why does Jesus' word still stay around? It's incredibly honest and it's good.
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