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School should be eleven months of the year.

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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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School
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Eleven
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Year

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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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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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Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
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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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Libraries...house our dreams.
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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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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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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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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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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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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 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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