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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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Invest
Coaching
Teachers
Coaches
Pay
Teaching
Tomorrow
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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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Libraries...house our dreams.
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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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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
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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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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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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 obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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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 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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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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