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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.

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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Tomorrow
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Coaching
Teachers
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The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.
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The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.
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I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
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We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.
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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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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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Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.
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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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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.
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Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being Homo sapiens was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.
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