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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

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

The world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by. — Nikki Giovanni

I like being
The 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 ... — Nikki Giovanni

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave. — Nikki Giovanni

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. — Nikki Giovanni

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

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

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else. — Nikki Giovanni

Who I am really keeps surprising me. — Nikki Giovanni

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't. — Nikki Giovanni

Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person. — Nikki Giovanni

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it. — 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

Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one. — Nikki Giovanni

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

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

I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious. — Nikki Giovanni

No one needs to teach you to be mean; we need to be taught to be kind. — 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 — Nikki Giovanni

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

Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts. — 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 soon
That you, my children of battle, are your heroes — Nikki Giovanni

But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed. — Nikki Giovanni

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

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

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

Go barefoot
and be warm
all the time
not only when you go to bed
and sleep — 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 peace
They 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

Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together. — Nikki Giovanni

Who I really am keeps surprising me. — Nikki Giovanni

Libraries ... house our dreams. — Nikki Giovanni

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore. — Nikki Giovanni

Life is a marvelous, transitory adventure. — Nikki Giovanni

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

VISIBILITY - You've got to find a way to make people know you're there — 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

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

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. — Nikki Giovanni

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

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

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