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Famous Nikki Giovanni Quotes
“Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.”
“I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.”
“the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.”
“Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.”
“Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.”
“I am so hip even my errors are correct”
“And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes”
“Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.”
“i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live”
“VISIBILITY - You've got to find a way to make people know you're there”
“It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.”
“In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame”
“I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.”
“Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.”
“We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.”
“White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.”
“Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.”
“Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.”
“Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.”
“We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.”