Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. Quotes
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If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
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You do what you can with what you have. You have to work the edges whatever they are. The main thing is keeping your integrity.
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Schools should be integrated by race and by class.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
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Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use 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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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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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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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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I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.
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i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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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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I just think she was a wonderful woman. What I think of when I think of Nina [Simone] is someone that I could relate to, who didn't want anything from me, that could relate to me because I didn't want anything from her. It was nice.
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I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.