American - Poet | June 7, 1943 -
I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.
Nikki Giovanni
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There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
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If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
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For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.
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When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.
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We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
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You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
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I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'
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The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.
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Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
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I'm just totally fascinated by people.
PeopleJustFascinatedTotally
I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.
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