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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.
— Nikki Giovanni
I like beingThe moon
To your sun — Nikki Giovanni
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
— Nikki Giovanni
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
FOR SONIA SANCHEZ
— Nikki Giovanni
A lot of people refuse to do things ...
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Sometimes when i wake up
in the morning
and see all the faces
i just can't
breathe
from Sometimes — Nikki Giovanni
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
Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It's the author's story, the author's voice.
— Nikki Giovanni
Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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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
Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
— Nikki Giovanni
We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.
— Nikki Giovanni
The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
— Nikki Giovanni
Who I am really keeps surprising me.
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She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.
— Nikki Giovanni
You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
— Nikki Giovanni
We in the Black Arts movement, which wasn't really a movement but a group of people who had similar objectives ...
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The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
— Nikki Giovanni
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
I appreciate and enjoy my age.
— Nikki Giovanni
Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
— Nikki Giovanni
If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.
— Nikki Giovanni
And like an unfaithful mate, once a car has let you down you never sort of trust it again.
— Nikki Giovanni
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
— Nikki Giovanni
Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and i told him i'm gonna beat out my own rhythm
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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
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 think that too many strangers were in Nina Simone life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
— Nikki Giovanni
I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
— Nikki Giovanni
Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
— Nikki Giovanni
Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.
— Nikki Giovanni
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
— Nikki Giovanni
Death is a slave's freedom.
— Nikki Giovanni
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
— Nikki Giovanni
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
For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.
— Nikki Giovanni
Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
— Nikki Giovanni
I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
— Nikki Giovanni
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
Poems don't have to rhyme. Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.
— Nikki Giovanni
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
All systems require myths for their longevity.
— 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
And you will understand all too soonThat you, my children of battle, are your heroes — Nikki Giovanni
Black Poetry is not for Black People ... it is for everybody
— Nikki 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
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
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
Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
— Nikki Giovanni
We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
— Nikki Giovanni
Black love is black wealth
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Floating to shore ... riding a low moon ... on a slow cloud.
— Nikki Giovanni
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
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
Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.
— Nikki Giovanni
Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
— Nikki 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
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
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
I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.
— Nikki Giovanni
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
In the name of peaceThey waged the wars
ain't they got no shame — Nikki Giovanni
Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
— 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
Who I really am keeps surprising me.
— Nikki Giovanni
Libraries ... house our dreams.
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Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.
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Life is a marvelous, transitory adventure.
— Nikki Giovanni
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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
Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
— Nikki Giovanni
Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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I'm just totally fascinated by people.
— Nikki Giovanni