Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. Quotes
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Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.
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I appreciate and enjoy my age.
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Schools should be integrated by race and by class.
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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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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
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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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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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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.
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i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live
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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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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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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 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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I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.
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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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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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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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Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because otherwise, it's stuck in this book and it's boring and it's academic and I'm not against intelligence and I'm not against education, I don't want to be misunderstood, but we have tell the stories to our young people a little bit early and history gives us a lot of things.
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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.
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She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.