Top 199 Quotes & Sayings by Nikki Giovanni - Page 4

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Last updated on December 4, 2024.

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

Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.

Nikki Giovanni

and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it

Nikki Giovanni

The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

Nikki Giovanni

I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.

Nikki Giovanni

We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to try to do it; it's what we [with Nina Simone] were to each other.

Nikki Giovanni

Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.

Nikki Giovanni

I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.

Nikki Giovanni

Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.

Nikki Giovanni

Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.

Nikki Giovanni

[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.

Nikki Giovanni

The future is in good hands.

Nikki Giovanni

The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.

Nikki Giovanni

Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody

Nikki Giovanni

School should be eleven months of the year.

Nikki Giovanni

If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.

Nikki Giovanni

You're only as good as your last book.