Nikki Giovanni Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
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
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.
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.
Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
I am cotton candy on a rainy day
the unrealized dream of an idea unborn
from Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
the unrealized dream of an idea unborn
from Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
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?
Poems don't have to rhyme. Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.
I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )
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.
Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.
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-
We cannot leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people
One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.
Poetry is motion graceful
as a fawn
gentle as a teardrop
strong like the eye
finding peace in a crowded room
as a fawn
gentle as a teardrop
strong like the eye
finding peace in a crowded room
We in the Black Arts movement, which wasn't really a movement but a group of people who had similar objectives ...
God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.
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.
If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
And i've begun
(as a reaction to a feeling)
to balance
the pleasure of loneliness
against the pain
of loving you
from Balances
(as a reaction to a feeling)
to balance
the pleasure of loneliness
against the pain
of loving you
from Balances
Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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.'
Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.
I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
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.
BEFORE YOU JUMP OFF A BRIDGE OR HANG YOURSELF OR BE UNHAPPY PLEASE CONSIDER: LIVE FOR YOURSELF; THOSE WHO HATE YOU HAVE NO PURCHASE
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.
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.