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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.

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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Around
Stills
Nina
Doe
Incredibly
Still
Stay
Music
Honest
Good
Saying
Like
Word
Jesus

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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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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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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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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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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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The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.
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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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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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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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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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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.
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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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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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