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Famous Nikki Giovanni Quotes
“I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.”
“Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.”
“No one needs to teach you to be mean; we need to be taught to be kind.”
“We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.”
“Who I really am keeps surprising me.”
“I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.”
“School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.”
“Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.”
“We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.”
“The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.”
“If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.”