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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.

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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Lunch
Schools
Serve
Sugared
Fast
Snack
Drink
Snacks
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Drinks
Food
Afternoon
School
Breakfast

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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
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I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of I want to tell the people.
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Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.
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I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
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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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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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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
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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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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people I do not lead the people.
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