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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
Teacher
Must
Invest
Coaching
Teachers
Coaches
Pay
Teaching

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You're only as good as your last book.
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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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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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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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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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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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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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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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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 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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I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on. I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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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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School should be eleven months of the year.
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My dream is a red dress Above my knees High-heel red sandals And me coming over the top The music booming Hi Howie I will say With a lovely smile I don't want to play the game I want to be it.
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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[My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.
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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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If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.
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