If you don’t understand yourself you don’t understand anybody else.
More quotes from Nikki Giovanni
Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
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You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
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We love because it’s the only true adventure.
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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.’
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When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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There’re two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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If now isn’t a good time for the truth I don’t see when we’ll get to it.
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If I could come back as anything – I’d be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
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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.
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Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
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Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
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If you don’t understand yourself you don’t understand anybody else.
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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.
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We eat up artists like there’s going to be a famine at the end.
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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