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In this world, you only get what you grab for. — Giovanni Boccaccio

Nikki Giovanni, 'We love because it's the only true adventure. — Tracy Ewens

Thin lips trace bold lines across my skin with a single, lingering kiss. — Cassandra Giovanni, Let The Fates Decide

Hats, giant shades and 60-plus sunblock are part of my summer repertoire. I don't want wrinkles, but it's skin cancer I truly fear. — Janine Di Giovanni

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant. — Giovanni Giocondo

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

It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything. — Giovanni Boccaccio

Tell me why it feels like you're a part of my soul? — Cassandra Giovanni

FOR SONIA SANCHEZ — Nikki Giovanni

A lot of people refuse to do things ... — Nikki Giovanni

It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years. — Janine Di Giovanni

Sometimes
when i wake up
in the morning
and see all the faces
i just can't
breathe
from Sometimes — Nikki Giovanni

I know who you are ... I've fallen hard for that person, and I sure as hell am not going to let you fade into your past. — Cassandra Giovanni

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It's the author's story, the author's voice. — Nikki Giovanni

Just so you know I don't really feel like you kidnapped me - it's more like assisted running away by coincidence. — Cassandra Giovanni

Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them. — Nikki Giovanni

We have a world to conquer ... one person at a time ... starting with ourselves. — Nikki Giovanni

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

The cat is in the sack, but the sack is not closed. The cat is in it, but it's open ... and it's a wild cat. — Giovanni Trapattoni

I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important. — Giovanni Ribisi

Far worse it is
To lose than never to have tasted bliss. — Giovanni Battista Guarini

I prefer her [Nina Simone] jazz period much more so than her folk period. — Nikki Giovanni

I don't have a life-style, I have a life. — Nikki Giovanni

No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart. — Giovanni Boccaccio

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled. — Nikki Giovanni

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants. — Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

Go take a shower, you smell like good sex and unnecessary regret. — Cassandra Giovanni

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content. — Nikki Giovanni

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process. — Giovanni Ribisi

We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to. — Nikki Giovanni

I'm just totally fascinated by people. — Nikki Giovanni

Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there. — Giovanni Giocondo

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

In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved. — Janine Di Giovanni

Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone. — Nikki Giovanni

You ever tried sixty-nine, Lola? I think you'd like it. You're a good multi-tasker. — Bianca Giovanni

It's always disappointing to come across phony do-gooders. And it's easy to scoff at celebrities working in war zones. — Janine Di Giovanni

God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings. — Nikki Giovanni

Tomorrow night, I'll be in Giovanni Schiaparelli's favorite hole! — Andy Weir

I'm into my Black Thing
And it's filling all
My empty spots — Nikki Giovanni

There are things you stand up for because it's right. — Nikki Giovanni

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end. — Nikki Giovanni

Because Nina's Simone music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, "Why does Jesus' word still stay around?" It's incredibly honest and it's good. — Nikki Giovanni

Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good. — Janine Di Giovanni

Giovanni's behavior had changed dramatically since he had opened that crate. He felt haunted. [After meeting the portrait of Botticelli's Bastard] — Stephen Maitland-Lewis

Death is a slave's freedom. — Nikki Giovanni

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. — Nikki Giovanni

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- ) — Nikki Giovanni

Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it. — Nikki Giovanni

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

I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. — Giovanni Ribisi

Humans: become atheists each and all! God will nevertheless welcome you with all his heart! — Giovanni Papini

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

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

I'm an old storyteller. [When] I tell the story, it's about the story. — Nikki Giovanni

I'd lost myself in the abyss of someone else's tyranny ... again. — Cassandra Giovanni

The problem with love is not what we feel but what we wish we felt when we began to feel we should feel something. — Nikki Giovanni

Black Poetry is not for Black People ... it is for everybody — Nikki Giovanni

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't. — Nikki Giovanni

Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come. — Nikki Giovanni

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other. — Nikki Giovanni

No perfection can last forever. Time tears at it; wears it down until it's nothing, just an empty shell. — Cassandra Giovanni

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way. — Nikki Giovanni

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good. — Giovanni Boccaccio

Moral certainty is never more than probability. — Giovanni Battista Beccaria

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait. — Giovanni Ruffini

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us. — Nikki Giovanni

Floating to shore ... riding a low moon ... on a slow cloud. — Nikki Giovanni

He was a throwback to a lady's old romantic notion of how a man should act. [Giovanni Tempesta] — Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco

Africa is a very dangerous place. — Janine Di Giovanni

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema. — Giovanni Ribisi

The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union. — Giovanni Agnelli

And sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it — Nikki Giovanni

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing. — Nikki Giovanni

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

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past. — Giovanni Ruffini

We in the Black Arts movement, which wasn't really a movement but a group of people who had similar objectives ... — Nikki Giovanni

Only if there's an outbreak of the bubonic plague. — Giovanni Trapattoni

I am threatened by the resolve that you are my soul. You are my being, you are every breath I take, you are my home, you are my sweet sin. — Cassandra Giovanni

Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers. — Janine Di Giovanni

The hole where my heart had finally grown back after the loss of my parents was returning because of the very person who had filled the void — Cassandra Giovanni

For so long music has been my heart, but now it's you ... you're my heart. — Cassandra Giovanni

There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise. — Janine Di Giovanni

I hoped to burn out, through Hella, my image of Giovanni and the reality of his touch - I hoped to drive out fire with fire. — James Baldwin

We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies. — Nikki Giovanni

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul. — Nikki Giovanni

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant. — Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak. — Nikki Giovanni

I hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live — Nikki Giovanni

The fact is, feminism is not what it used to be. — Janine Di Giovanni

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt. — Nikki Giovanni

Tenzin said, "More popcorn, my boy."
Giovanni ripped the plastic bag open and held the paper bag. "This is ridiculous. I'm not a kitchen appliance. — Elizabeth Hunter

Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned. — Giovanni Ribisi

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side. — Janine Di Giovanni

We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be. — Nikki Giovanni

Black love is black wealth — Nikki Giovanni

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend. — Nikki Giovanni

We can't behave like crocodiles and cry over spilled milk and broken eggs. — Giovanni Trapattoni

Do as we say, and not as we do — Giovanni Boccaccio

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth. — Giovanni Boccaccio