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Nikki Giovanni - From the Artists category:
We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end. (Nikki Giovanni)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Change category:
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying. (Nikki Giovanni)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Education category:
It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend. (Nikki Giovanni)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Effort category:
Nothing is easy to the unwilling. (Nikki Giovanni)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Ego category:
Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person. (Nikki Giovanni)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Friendship category:
I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect. (Nikki Giovanni)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Gender category:
It's a sex object if you're pretty and no love, or love and no sex if you're fat. (Nikki Giovanni)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Individuality category:
Deal with yourself as a individual worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way. (Nikki Giovanni)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Life category:
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)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Listening category:
I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (Nikki Giovanni)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Love category:
We love because it's the only true adventure. (Nikki Giovanni)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Love category:
Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. (Nikki Giovanni)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Mistakes category:
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. (Nikki Giovanni)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Play category:
You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play. (Nikki Giovanni)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Production category:
It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. (Nikki Giovanni)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Religion category:
White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus. (Nikki Giovanni)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Responsibility category:
Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us. (Nikki Giovanni)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Taste category:
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste. (Nikki Giovanni)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Truth category:
If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it. (Nikki Giovanni)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Tyranny category:
There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave. (Nikki Giovanni)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Understanding category:
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else. (Nikki Giovanni)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Vulnerability category:
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)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Words category:
I don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak. (Nikki Giovanni)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Writing category:
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained. (Nikki Giovanni)
Nikki Giovanni - From the Writing category:
Writers don't write from experience, though many are hesitant to admit that they don't. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy. (Nikki Giovanni)
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