Nikki Giovanni

“I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.”

“We love because it is the only true adventure.”

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

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

“and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it”

“Ego Tripping I was born in the congo I walked to the fertile crescent and built the sphinx I designed a pyramid so tough that a star that only glows every one hundred years falls into the ce...”

“It is difficult to be an artist, because what you can see needs to be done and what you can achieve are generally two very opposite things. The two are like yin and yang, north and south, po...”

“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.”

“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 emp...”

“If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.”

“It is called education because it is learned. You do not have to have had an experience in order to sympathize or empathize with the subject. That is why books are written: so that we do not...”

“I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.”

“If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.”

“I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.”

“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.”

“Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.”

“Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.”

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

“Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.”

“Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.”