Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- ) — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I just think she was a wonderful woman. What I think of when I think of Nina [Simone] is someone that I could relate… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share
It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share
I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share
You do what you can with what you have. You have to work the edges whatever they are. The main thing is keeping your… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share
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 Copy Share
ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share
Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share
[To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share
daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and i told him i’m gonna beat out my own rhythm — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share
Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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