If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else. Nikki Giovanni More Quotes by Nikki Giovanni More Quotes From Nikki Giovanni Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart. Nikki Giovanni love-youheartlove-is I don't have a life-style, I have a life. Nikki Giovanni life-stylelifestylestyle War is not a jobs program. Nikki Giovanni programjobswar 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. Nikki Giovanni wantlovegiving Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste. Nikki Giovanni tasterealityart 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 Nikki Giovanni childhoodblacklove Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying. Nikki Giovanni growing-upjusticeinspiring Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could. Nikki Giovanni love-freedomdeterminedpeople There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave. Nikki Giovanni twopeopleworld 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. Nikki Giovanni distancegivingpeople If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be. Nikki Giovanni cuttingstrongsky I think life is cotton candy on a rainy day. For those who grew up with cotton candy the old-fashioned way, it is very delicate. Pre-made cotton candy that has preservatives is not nearly as good or true. True cotton candy is sugar, color, and air and it melts very quickly. That was the metaphor - it can't be preserved, it can't be put aside, it can't be banked. It has to be experienced, like life. Nikki Giovanni rainy-dayairthinking Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it. Nikki Giovanni helpfulviolenceuse Schools should be integrated by race and by class. Nikki Giovanni raceclassschool Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing. Nikki Giovanni hipship-hopexpression Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice. Nikki Giovanni voicetelling-the-truthstories We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end. Nikki Giovanni artistendsart The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn. Nikki Giovanni being-yourselfwantadvice Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together. Nikki Giovanni lifepeoplefall My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience. Nikki Giovanni shouldreasontrying
