"Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together."
-Nikki Giovanni
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"I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.“
-Nikki Giovanni
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"I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try."
-Nikki Giovanni
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"I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching."
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"I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me."
-Nikki Giovanni
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"For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool."
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"Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying."
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"Failure is not fatal victory is not success."
-Tony Richardson
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"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."
-Edward Eggleston
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"It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure."
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"Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life."
-Michael Savage
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