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I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility.
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His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached nonviolence.
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Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
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I'm a modern woman
ain't gonna let this get me down
gonna take my master charge
and get everything in town
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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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There's a reason we lose a lot its not our game
and we don't know how to score.
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Life/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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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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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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It was good for the virgin mary
it was good enough for mary
it was good for the virgin mary
its good enough for me.
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And if ever i touched a life i hope that life knows
that i know that touching was and still is and will always
be the true
revolution.
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And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
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Writers... I think... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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Nobody mentions how it feels to become a freak
because you have talent and how
no one gives a damn how you feel.
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While I don't ask you to save the world, I do ask you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary, and remove from your life those who offer you despair and disrespect.
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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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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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Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.
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But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.
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Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
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Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
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Neither of them ever
said what they meant
and i guess nobody ever does.
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The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity. Take away the ability to both work and be proud of it and you can drive anyone insane.
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Childhood remembrances are always a drag
if you're Black.
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Nikki Giovanni
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Born:
June 7, 1943
(age 80)
Bio:
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator.
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