Nikki Giovanni Quotes
- She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.
- I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
- Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
- His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction…
- We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
- White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
- Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.
- Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
- Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
- I appreciate and enjoy my age.
- Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
- What's the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in Wyoming because he's…
- We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
- A lot of people refuse to do things...
- Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
- The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.
- Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.
- The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.
- It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to…
- If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by…