Nikki Giovanni

When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

— Nikki Giovanni

Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was…

— Nikki Giovanni

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

— 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

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

— Nikki Giovanni

Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the…

— Nikki Giovanni

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

— 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

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

— Nikki Giovanni

I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.

— Nikki Giovanni

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

— Nikki Giovanni

The future is in good hands.

— Nikki Giovanni

If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.

— Nikki Giovanni

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

— Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

— Nikki Giovanni

If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.

— Nikki Giovanni

“i wanted to take your hand and run with you together toward ourselves down the street to your street i wanted to…

— Nikki Giovanni

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

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

— Nikki Giovanni

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

— Nikki Giovanni

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

— Nikki Giovanni

“We are all more than our experiences And less than our dreams ~ from "I Am Glass”

— 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

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

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

— Nikki Giovanni