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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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Coaches
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Teaching
Tomorrow
Teacher
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Coaching
Teachers

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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
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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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Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
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My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.
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I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.
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We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.
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My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.
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Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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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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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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Death is a slave's freedom.
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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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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 a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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