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Nikki Giovanni

A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.
— Nikki Giovanni change
Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.
— Nikki Giovanni music
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
— Nikki Giovanni life
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.
— Nikki Giovanni life
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
— Nikki Giovanni self
We love because it's the only true adventure.
— Nikki Giovanni love
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.'
— Nikki Giovanni people
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
— Nikki Giovanni man
There are things you stand up for because it's right.
— Nikki Giovanni you
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
— Nikki Giovanni change
Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.
— Nikki Giovanni expression
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
— Nikki Giovanni world
A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.
— Nikki Giovanni people
We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
— Nikki Giovanni art
Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
— Nikki Giovanni love
Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
— Nikki Giovanni believe
I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
— Nikki Giovanni history
If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
— Nikki Giovanni truth
There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
— Nikki Giovanni people
White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
— Nikki Giovanni people
For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.
— Nikki Giovanni life
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
— Nikki Giovanni writer
Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
— Nikki Giovanni children
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
— Nikki Giovanni art
Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
— Nikki Giovanni self
A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world youre in and take advantage of it.
— Nikki Giovanni change
I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of I want to tell the people.
— Nikki Giovanni art

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