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Top 30 quotes of NIKKI GIOVANNI famous quotes and sayings

Top 30 quotes of NIKKI GIOVANNI famous quotes and sayings – These Nikki Giovanni quotes will help remind you of the power you need to bring positive change.

Nikki Giovanni is an American poet, activist and teacher. One of America’s leading poets, Giovanni is the author of several children’s books and poetry collections. His work covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children’s literature.

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

2.“the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.”
―Nikki Giovanni

3.“I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”
―Nikki Giovanni

4.“We love because it’s the only true adventure.”
―Nikki Giovanni

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5.“Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts.”
―Nikki Giovanni

6.“Don’t want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.”
―Nikki Giovanni

7.“i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live”
―Nikki Giovanni,

8.“I am so hip even my errors are correct”
―Nikki Giovanni

9.“Nothing is easy to the unwilling.”
―Nikki Giovanni

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10.“You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you’ll never write.”
―Nikki Giovanni

11.“I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me…I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-”
―Nikki Giovanni

12.“Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.”
―Nikki Giovanni

13.I know
but that’s why mankind
alone among the animals
learns to cry”
―Nikki Giovanni

14.“A lot of people refuse to do things because they don’t want to go naked, don’t want to go without guarantee. But that’s what’s got to happen. You go naked until you die”
―Nikki Giovanni

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Top 30 quotes of NIKKI GIOVANNI famous quotes and sayings

15.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

16.“If you don’t understand yourself you don’t understand anybody else.”
―Nikki Giovanni

17.“daddy says the world is
a drum tight and hard
and i told him
i’m gonna beat
out my own rhythm”
―Nikki Giovanni

18.“I’m glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )”
―Nikki Giovanni

19.“Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t. …If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”
―Nikki Giovanni

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Top 30 quotes of NIKKI GIOVANNI famous quotes and sayings

20.“I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.”
―Nikki Giovanni

21.You still bring to bear all your prior experience, but you are riding on another level. It’s completely liberating.”
―Nikki Giovanni

22.“Black love is black wealth”
―Nikki Giovanni

23.We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.”
―Nikki Giovanni

24.“And you will understand all too soon
That you, my children of battle, are your heroes”
―Nikki Giovanni,

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Top 30 quotes of NIKKI GIOVANNI famous quotes and sayings

25.“Floating to shore…riding a low moon…on a slow cloud.”
―Nikki Giovanni

26.“If you’re a writer, the answer to everything is yes.”
―Nikki Giovanni

27.“i move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don’t.”
―Nikki Giovanni

28.“VISIBILITY – You’ve got to find a way to make people know you’re there”
―Nikki Giovanni

29.“If I can’t do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It’s not the same thing, but it’s the best thing I can do.”
―Nikki Giovanni,

30.“it is not unusual to sift
through ashes
and find an unburnt picture”
―Nikki Giovanni

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