Education Quotes by Nikki Giovanni

Schools should be integrated by race and by class.

— Nikki Giovanni

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

— Nikki Giovanni

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

— Nikki Giovanni

Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.

— Nikki Giovanni

School should be eleven months of the year.

— Nikki Giovanni

School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.

— Nikki Giovanni

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

— Nikki Giovanni

We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.

— Nikki Giovanni

In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.

— Nikki Giovanni

We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in…

— Nikki Giovanni

“and everybody was happy that uncle lee was able to get that scholarship even though you wondered when you could do quadratic…

— Nikki Giovanni

Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a…

— Nikki Giovanni