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Nikki Giovanni quotes: The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change. The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: The world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by. The world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: If i can't have what i want ... then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want If i can't have what i want ... then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want
Nikki Giovanni quotes: The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader. The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: 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 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
Nikki Giovanni quotes: FOR SONIA SANCHEZ FOR SONIA SANCHEZ
Nikki Giovanni quotes: The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity. The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: A lot of people refuse to do things ... A lot of people refuse to do things ...
Nikki Giovanni quotes: There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave. There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Sometimes when i wake up in the morning and see all the faces i just can't breathe from Sometimes Sometimes
when i wake up
in the morning
and see all the faces
i just can't
breathe
from Sometimes
Nikki Giovanni quotes: A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind. A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Sacred cows make very poor gladiators. Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try. When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them. Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: We have a world to conquer ... one person at a time ... starting with ourselves. We have a world to conquer ... one person at a time ... starting with ourselves.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else. If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't. She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person. Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it. If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: I am cotton candy on a rainy day the unrealized dream of an idea unborn from Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day I am cotton candy on a rainy day
the unrealized dream of an idea unborn

from Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
Nikki Giovanni quotes: What's the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in Wyoming because he's gay? What's the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in Wyoming because he's gay?
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one. Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Poems don't have to rhyme. Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings. Poems don't have to rhyme. Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- ) I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )
Nikki Giovanni quotes: We are all more than our experiencesAnd less than our dreams~ from "I Am Glass We are all more than our experiences
And less than our dreams
~ from "I Am Glass
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could. Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: All systems require myths for their longevity. All systems require myths for their longevity.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts. Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together. Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: I've not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me ... I've not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away- I've not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me ... I've not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-
Nikki Giovanni quotes: We cannot leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people We cannot leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people
Nikki Giovanni quotes: One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality. One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool. For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Nothing is easy to the unwilling. Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying. Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Poetry is motion graceful as a fawn gentle as a teardrop strong like the eye finding peace in a crowded room Poetry is motion graceful
as a fawn
gentle as a teardrop
strong like the eye
finding peace in a crowded room
Nikki Giovanni quotes: We in the Black Arts movement, which wasn't really a movement but a group of people who had similar objectives ... We in the Black Arts movement, which wasn't really a movement but a group of people who had similar objectives ...
Nikki Giovanni quotes: I always like summerbest I always like summer
best
Nikki Giovanni quotes: God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings. God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: It is not unusual to siftthrough ashesand find an unburnt picture It is not unusual to sift
through ashes
and find an unburnt picture
Nikki Giovanni quotes: You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play. You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: There are things you stand up for because it's right. There are things you stand up for because it's right.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste. Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh. I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter ... Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter ...
Nikki Giovanni quotes: There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success. There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed. But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end. We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection. We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened. History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching. I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes. If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Poets should be ashamedTo dieBefore they kissThe sun Poets should be ashamed
To die
Before they kiss
The sun
Nikki Giovanni quotes: White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus. White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice. If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure. The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: And i've begun (as a reaction to a feeling)to balance the pleasure of loneliness against the pain of loving you from Balances And i've begun
(as a reaction to a feeling)
to balance
the pleasure of loneliness
against the pain
of loving you
from Balances
Nikki Giovanni quotes: We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be. We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: I don't have a life-style, I have a life. I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content. Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: I prefer her [Nina Simone] jazz period much more so than her folk period. I prefer her [Nina Simone] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to. We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: I'm just totally fascinated by people. I'm just totally fascinated by people.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: 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.' 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.'
Nikki Giovanni quotes: We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies. We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul. Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak. Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt. Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled. Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Black love is black wealth Black love is black wealth
Nikki Giovanni quotes: It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend. It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Floating to shore ... riding a low moon ... on a slow cloud. Floating to shore ... riding a low moon ... on a slow cloud.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Black Poetry is not for Black People ... it is for everybody Black Poetry is not for Black People ... it is for everybody
Nikki Giovanni quotes: I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't. I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come. Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other. If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way. Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing. Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong. I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Life is a marvelous, transitory adventure. Life is a marvelous, transitory adventure.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it. Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself. Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: 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. 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.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and i told him i'm gonna beat out my own rhythm Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and i told him i'm gonna beat out my own rhythm
Nikki Giovanni quotes: We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained. We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you. If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious. I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: I appreciate and enjoy my age. I appreciate and enjoy my age.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: BEFORE YOU JUMP OFF A BRIDGE OR HANG YOURSELF OR BE UNHAPPY PLEASE CONSIDER: LIVE FOR YOURSELF; THOSE WHO HATE YOU HAVE NO PURCHASE BEFORE YOU JUMP OFF A BRIDGE OR HANG YOURSELF OR BE UNHAPPY PLEASE CONSIDER: LIVE FOR YOURSELF; THOSE WHO HATE YOU HAVE NO PURCHASE
Nikki Giovanni quotes: No one needs to teach you to be mean; we need to be taught to be kind. No one needs to teach you to be mean; we need to be taught to be kind.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: And you will understand all too soonThat you, my children of battle, are your heroes And you will understand all too soon
That you, my children of battle, are your heroes
Nikki Giovanni quotes: I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher. I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: In the name of peaceThey waged the wars ain't they got no shame In the name of peace
They waged the wars
ain't they got no shame
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes. Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together. Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Who I really am keeps surprising me. Who I really am keeps surprising me.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: Libraries ... house our dreams. Libraries ... house our dreams.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do. I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.
Nikki Giovanni quotes: I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes. I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.

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