Nikki Giovanni Quotes - Page 3

Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.

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.

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.

Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.

I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.

It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.

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.

Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

VISIBILITY - You've got to find a way to make people know you're there

It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

America may not be the best nation on earth, but it has conceived loftier ideals and dreamed higher dreams than any other nation. America is a heterogeneous nation of many different people of different races, religions, and creeds. Should this experiment go forth and prosper, we will have offered humans a new way to look at life; should it fail, we will simply go the way of all failed civilizations.

i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together.

All systems require myths for their longevity.

But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.

We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.

I grow old though pleased with my memories The tasks I can no longer complete Are balanced by the love of the tasks gone past I offer no apology only this plea: When I am frayed and strained and drizzle at the end Please someone cut a square and put me in a quilt That I might keep some child warm And some old person with no one else to talk to Will hear my whispers And cuddle near

Rage is to writers what water is to fish.

Life is a marvelous, transitory adventure.

I am so hip even my errors are correct

I think life is cotton candy on a rainy day. For those who grew up with cotton candy the old-fashioned way, it is very delicate. Pre-made cotton candy that has preservatives is not nearly as good or true. True cotton candy is sugar, color, and air and it melts very quickly. That was the metaphor - it can't be preserved, it can't be put aside, it can't be banked. It has to be experienced, like life.

I think we're always in love. It's that simple. And it's important to remember that love doesn't have anything to do with sex. It's two different things. Being in love is the happy part. I was teasing my gentleman, "We know that you're in love when you cook for us." It's true. When men cook for you, they're in love.

My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.