Nikki Giovanni Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Love, Giving, Want

  Nikki Giovanni (1976). “Gemini: an extended autobiographical statement on my first twenty-five years of being a Black poet”, Viking Pr

• I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.

  Nikki Giovanni

  College, Thinking, Light

• I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Distance, People, Giving

  "Living Legends: An Interview With the Incomparable Nikki Giovanni". Interview with Matthew Lynch, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2012.

• Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because otherwise, it's stuck in this book and it's boring and it's academic and I'm not against intelligence and I'm not against education, I don't want to be misunderstood, but we have tell the stories to our young people a little bit early and history gives us a lot of things.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Book, People, Giving

  Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. April 2007.

• I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Teacher, Giving, Nina

  "Nikki Giovanni on Her Friend Nina Simone: If She Were Here, She'd Be Wearing a 'Black Lives Matter' T-Shirt". Interview with Lottie L. Joiner, www.theroot.com. July 20, 2016.

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