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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
Jr
Teachers
Coaches
Pay
Teaching
Tomorrow
Teacher
Must
Invest
Coaching

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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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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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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
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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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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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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 job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself where once he had he, he now has she and they.
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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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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor those who struggle are middle class.
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You're only as good as your last book.
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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 appreciate and enjoy my age.
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