Quotes from Nikki Giovanni
I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.
- Nikki Giovanni
Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.
- Nikki Giovanni
White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
- 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 would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.
- Nikki Giovanni
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
- Nikki Giovanni
Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.
- Nikki Giovanni
We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.
- Nikki Giovanni
Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.
- Nikki Giovanni
If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.
- Nikki Giovanni
Life is a marvelous, transitory adventure.
- Nikki Giovanni
We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
- Nikki Giovanni