Thinking Quotes by Nikki Giovanni

I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.

— Nikki Giovanni

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

— Nikki Giovanni

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

— Nikki Giovanni

We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.

— 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…

— Nikki Giovanni

We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to…

— Nikki Giovanni

I just think she was a wonderful woman. What I think of when I think of Nina [Simone] is someone that I…

— Nikki Giovanni

Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean…

— Nikki Giovanni

I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had -…

— Nikki Giovanni

I think we're always in love. It's that simple. And it's important to remember that love doesn't have anything to do with…

— Nikki Giovanni

I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.

— Nikki Giovanni

Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.

— Nikki Giovanni

Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state…

— Nikki Giovanni

I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not…

— Nikki Giovanni

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

I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time,…

— Nikki Giovanni

Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years,…

— Nikki Giovanni

[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

Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we…

— Nikki Giovanni

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make…

— Nikki Giovanni

I am a big fan of the electronic book. I hate to see the old bookstores close, but they have to reinvent…

— Nikki Giovanni

I used to dream militant dreams of taking over america to show these whitefolks how it should be done i used to…

— Nikki Giovanni

I think life is cotton candy on a rainy day. For those who grew up with cotton candy the old-fashioned way, it…

— Nikki Giovanni

I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the…

— Nikki Giovanni