Latest Nikki Giovanni Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Being In Love, Simple, Love Is

  Source: www.hbook.com

• I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Human Experience, Humans, Fascinated

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

• A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Wine, Player, Tennis

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

• Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Mistake, Facts, Willing

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

• My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Mistake, Young Writers, No Fear

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

• There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Block, Writing, Information

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

• Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Writing, Thinking

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

• In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.

  Nikki Giovanni

  School, Law, Narrative

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

• I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Listening, Trying, Attention

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

• You do what you can with what you have. You have to work the edges whatever they are. The main thing is keeping your integrity.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Integrity, Edges

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

• Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Book, Heart, Years

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

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

  Nikki Giovanni

  Tragedy, Accidents

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

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

  Nikki Giovanni

  Running, Track, Hip Hop

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

• 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

• We are all either wheels or connectors. Whichever we are we must find truth and balance, which is a bicycle. Trust and balance are also essential to true love.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Balance, Essentials, Wheels

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

• We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Teacher, Teaching, Coaching

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• War is not a jobs program.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Jobs, War, Program

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• 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.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Children, Distance, Airplane

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Writing, Firsts, Language

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Schools should be integrated by race and by class.

  Nikki Giovanni

  School, Race, Class

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.

  Nikki Giovanni

  School, Snacks, Lunch

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.

  Nikki Giovanni

  School, Twenties, Four

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• School should be eleven months of the year.

  Nikki Giovanni

  School, Years, Months

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• The future is in good hands.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Hands

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something; yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Hero, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com