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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.

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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[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.
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A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.
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I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
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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 have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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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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Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.
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A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.
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I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-
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Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.
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