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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.

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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Play
Lovely
Booming
Smile
Sandals
Coming
Heel
Game
Heels
High
Knees
Games
Dress
Dream
Red
Music
Dresses
Howie

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A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.
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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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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
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School should be eleven months of the year.
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Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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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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Black love is black wealth
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I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of I want to tell the people.
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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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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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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.
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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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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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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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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’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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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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