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Famous Nikki Giovanni Quotes
“You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.”
“I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.”
“Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.”
“We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.”
“Rage is to writers what water is to fish.”
“And like an unfaithful mate, once a car has let you down you never sort of trust it again.”
“Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.”
“I don't have a life-style, I have a life.”
“Life is a marvelous, transitory adventure.”
“All systems require myths for their longevity.”
“But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.”
“I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.”
“You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.”
“Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.”
“Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.”
“If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.”
“go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep”
“We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.”