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… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I like what they're doing. I think they're doing a good job, and I know that a lot of people are upset… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our… — 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
Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
You have to use what you have in order to get what you need and the people can not be rich unless… — 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
VISIBILITY - You've got to find a way to make people know you're there — 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
I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
America may not be the best nation on earth, but it has conceived loftier ideals and dreamed higher dreams than any other… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey,… — 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 Image
It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
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 Image
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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