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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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Coaching
Teachers
Coaches
Pay
Teaching
Tomorrow
Teacher
Must
Invest

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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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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
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Black love is black wealth
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other 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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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.
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