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Nikki Giovanni Quotes about Art

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Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

Nikki Giovanni
Art, Eye, Sanctuary

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Nikki Giovanni
Art, Reality, Taste
Nikki Giovanni, Margaret Walker (1974). “A poetic equation: conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker”, Howard Univ Pr

Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we are describing, ultimately we use either a metaphor; or we say "that's poetry in motion." You drink a glass of wine and say, "that's poetry in a bottle." Everything is poetry, so I think we come down to emotional information. And that's what poetry conveys.

Nikki Giovanni
Art, Wine, Emotional

We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.

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

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

Nikki Giovanni
Art, Artist, Ends
Nikki Giovanni (1975). “The women and the men”, William Morrow &Company

I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.

Nikki Giovanni
Art, Thinking, 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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