Nikki Giovanni Quotes
16 Nikki Giovanni quotes:
"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 sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people."
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"If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it."
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"There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave."
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"We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end."
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"Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste."
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"I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'"
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"If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice."
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"We love because it's the only true adventure."
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"I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try."
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"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."
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"If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else."
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"We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained."
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"Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us."
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"You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play."
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"A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind."
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"don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak."
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