Nikki Giovanni Quotes - Page 6

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• Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Moon, Clouds, Floating

  Nikki Giovanni (1983). “Those who ride the night winds”, William Morrow & Co

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• White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

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  Jesus, Godly, White

  1971 Conversation with James Baldwin, London, 4 Nov. Collected in A Dialogue (1973).

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• I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Thinking, Black, Wish

  Source: www.theroot.com

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• I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

  Nikki Giovanni

  People, Hip Hop, Generations

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

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• The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Class, Overcoming, Use

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• You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

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  Teaching, Playing Games, Aging

  Nikki Giovanni (1993). “Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People”, p.49, Chicago Review Press

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• I just think she was a wonderful woman. What I think of when I think of Nina [Simone] is someone that I could relate to, who didn't want anything from me, that could relate to me because I didn't want anything from her. It was nice.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Nice, Thinking, Want

  "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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• Who I am really keeps surprising me.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Who I Am, Surprising

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• My dream is a red dress Above my knees High-heel red sandals And me coming over the top The music booming
  Hi Howie I will say
  With a lovely smile I don't want to play the game I want to be it.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Dream, High Heels, Games

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

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• Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.

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  Good Friend, Daddy, Together

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• Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

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  Change, Vacuums, Filled

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co

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• One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.

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  Reality, Ideas, United States

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co

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• I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.

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  Thinking, Speech, Fruit

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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• The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Tragedy, Accidents

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

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• If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.

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  Running, Track, Hip Hop

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

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• I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people; I do not lead the people.

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  Running, Artist, Office

  "Nikki Giovanni - Celebrity Guest Author Interview". Interview with Cheryl Holloway, www.cherylholloway.net. February 14, 2014.

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• We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Mother, Writing, Worry

  Interview with Nicole Sealey, mosaicmagazine.org. September 6, 2013.

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• Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.

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  Education, Educational, Progress

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co

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• I like what they're doing. I think they're doing a good job, and I know that a lot of people are upset by them. These are great young men and women, and they're bold, and they are saying to America, "Something's going to change." I'm very proud of them.

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  Jobs, Men, Thinking

  "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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• Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

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  Education, School, Poetry

  Nikki Giovanni (1992). “Conversations with Nikki Giovanni”, p.137, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.

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  Song, Perfect, People

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• I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.

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  Reading, People, Family And Friends

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• [To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay attention. It keeps you from being bored, and I might add it keeps you from being boorish.

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  Bored, Important, Next

  Interview with Scholastic students, www.scholastic.com. 2002.

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• And like an unfaithful mate, once a car has let you down you never sort of trust it again.

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  Car, Unfaithful, Mates

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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• Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine.

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  Wine, Air, Two

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