Nikki Giovanni - Life Quotes

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Mistakes are a fact of life
It is the response to error that counts.

Nikki Giovanni

And if ever i touched a life i hope that life knows
that i know that touching was and still is and will always
be the true
revolution.

Nikki Giovanni

Life/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.

Nikki Giovanni

While I don't ask you to save the world, I do ask you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary, and remove from your life those who offer you despair and disrespect.

Nikki Giovanni

You know a person is having a severe personality crisis if you see a high school class ring on a finger beyond the first semester in college. Male or female. It's a big sign saying nothing has mattered to my life since senior year.

Nikki Giovanni

Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together.

Nikki Giovanni

If loneliness were a grape
the wine would be vintage
If it were a wood
the furniture would be mahogany
But since it is life it is
Cotton Candy
on a rainy day
The sweet soft essence
of possibility
Never quite maturing

Nikki Giovanni

America may not be the best nation on earth, but it has conceived loftier ideals and dreamed higher dreams than any other nation. America is a heterogeneous nation of many different people of different races, religions, and creeds. Should this experiment go forth and prosper, we will have offered humans a new way to look at life; should it fail, we will simply go the way of all failed civilizations.

Nikki Giovanni