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Nikki Giovanni
American
Poet
About the author
White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
Nikki Giovanni,
American
Poet
#God
#People
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.
Nikki Giovanni,
American
Poet
#Skin
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
Nikki Giovanni,
American
Poet
#Spirit
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Nikki Giovanni,
American
Poet
#Love
#Adventure
We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
Nikki Giovanni,
American
Poet
#End
#Artists
#Famine
There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
Nikki Giovanni,
American
Poet
#People
#World
You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
Nikki Giovanni,
American
Poet
#Games
#Play
#Old
Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
Nikki Giovanni,
American
Poet
#Poor
#Cows
If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
Nikki Giovanni,
American
Poet
#Time
#Now
#Truth
If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
Nikki Giovanni,
American
Poet
#First
#Choice
#Key
I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'
Nikki Giovanni,
American
Poet
#People
#Fact
I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
Nikki Giovanni,
American
Poet
#Life
#Failure
#Mind
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
Nikki Giovanni,
American
Poet
#Will
#Question
#Change
#Growing up
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
Nikki Giovanni,
American
Poet
#Art
#Taste
A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.
Nikki Giovanni,
American
Poet
#Want
#People
Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
Nikki Giovanni,
American
Poet
#Love
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
Nikki Giovanni,
American
Poet
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
Nikki Giovanni,
American
Poet
#Life
#Mistakes
#Fact
#Error