Nikki Giovanni - People Quotes

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God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.

Nikki Giovanni
I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though many are hesitant to admit that they don't. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

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.

Nikki Giovanni
Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.

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

Nikki Giovanni
If i am imprisoned in my skin let it be a dark world with a deep bass walking a witch doctor to me for spiritual consultation let my world be defined by my skin and the skin of my people for we spirit to spirit will embrace this world

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

Nikki Giovanni
We didn't write a constitution... we live one... We didn't say "We the People"... we are one... We didn't have to add... as an afterthought... "Under God"... We turn our faces to the rising sun... knowing... a New Day... is always... beginning

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Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean a lot to me, just interesting, so I both embrace and attack the ideas because I found them, well, delightful.

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