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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
Nikki Giovanni
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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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School should be eleven months of the year.
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Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself where once he had he, he now has she and they.
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We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to try to do it it's what we [with Nina Simone] were to each other.
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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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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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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
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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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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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