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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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Afternoon
School
Breakfast
Lunch
Schools
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Sugared
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Snack
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Snacks

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Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.
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