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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
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
Jr
Twenty
Twenties
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Four
Hours
School
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Buildings
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