Quotes from Nikki Giovanni

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

I really hope no white person ever has causeto write about mebecause they never understandBlack love is Black wealth and they'llprobably talk about my hard childhoodand never understand thatall the while I was quite happy.

In the name of peace They waged the wars Ain't they got no shame

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

I appreciate and enjoy my age.

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.

We love because it's 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.

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

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

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.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

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

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

i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

I am so hip even my errors are correct.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

Deal with yourself as a individual worthy of respect, and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

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-

I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. 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.