Nikki Giovanni Quotes about Love

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Love, Life, Heartbreak

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.

Love, African American, Responsible

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

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.

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

Love, Rain, Two

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

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.

Love, Spiritual, Years

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

Love, Childhood, Black

"Nikki-Rosa" l. 24 (1970)