Nikki Giovanni quotes - page 2

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us. (Nikki Giovanni)

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

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You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

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If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

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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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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.

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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

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I appreciate and enjoy my age.

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

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I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

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History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened... (Nikki Giovanni)

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

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I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

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There are things you stand up for because it's right.

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There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.

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Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.

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i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live.

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I've not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I've not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away.

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Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.

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

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We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end. (Nikki Giovanni)

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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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.

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The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

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Nikki Giovanni

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Occupation: American Poet
Born: June 7, 1943
Died: December 9, 2024
Quotes count: 53
Wikipedia: Nikki Giovanni

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