Quotes from Nikki Giovanni
I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
- Nikki Giovanni
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
- Nikki Giovanni
Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
- Nikki Giovanni
The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.
- Nikki Giovanni
Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.
- Nikki Giovanni
Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
- Nikki Giovanni
The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
- Nikki Giovanni
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
- Nikki Giovanni
show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person
- Nikki Giovanni
I really hope no white person ever has causeto write about mebecause they never understandBlack love is Black wealth and they'llprobably talk about my hard childhoodand never understand thatall the while I was quite happy.
- Nikki Giovanni
I appreciate and enjoy my age.
- Nikki Giovanni
We love because it's the only true adventure.
- Nikki Giovanni