I just think she was a wonderful woman. What I think of when I think of Nina [Simone] is someone that I… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
My dream is a red dress Above my knees High-heel red sandals And me coming over the top The music booming Hi… — 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
Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak. — 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
The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given… — 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
If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come. — 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
If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
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 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
I am a big fan of the electronic book. I hate to see the old bookstores close, but they have to reinvent… — 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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