Nikki Giovanni Quotes


16 Nikki Giovanni quotes:



"don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak."
Author: Giovanni Quotes Category: Words Quotes
"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."
Author: Giovanni Quotes Category: Mind 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."
Author: Giovanni Quotes Category: Discipline Quotes
"You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play."
Author: Giovanni Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us."
Author: Giovanni Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained."
Author: Giovanni Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes Spirit Quotes
"If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else."
Author: Giovanni Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."
Author: Giovanni Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"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."
Author: Giovanni Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"We love because it's the only true adventure."
Author: Giovanni Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice."
Author: Giovanni Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"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.'"
Author: Giovanni Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste."
Author: Giovanni Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end."
Author: Giovanni Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave."
Author: Giovanni Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it."
Author: Giovanni Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes



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