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

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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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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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