Nikki Giovanni Quotes

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

Failure, Life, Mind

We love because it's the only true adventure.
Nikki Giovanni

Love, True, Adventure

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
Nikki Giovanni

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

Life, Mistakes, Fact

A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.
Nikki Giovanni

Change, Enjoy, Learn

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
Nikki Giovanni

Human, Cannot, Write

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
Nikki Giovanni

Yourself, Understand, Else

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

Great, History, Give

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
Nikki Giovanni

Choice, Second, Bird

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

Change, Everything, Question

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

Happen, Die, Until

Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
Nikki Giovanni

Best, Everything

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
Nikki Giovanni

Two, Master, Slave

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.
Nikki Giovanni

Expression, Cultural, Embracing

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
Nikki Giovanni

Time, Good, Truth

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
Nikki Giovanni

Hurt, Children, Feelings

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'
Nikki Giovanni

Fact, Generation, White

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

Music, Good, Poetry

There are things you stand up for because it's right.
Nikki Giovanni

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
Nikki Giovanni

God, Black, Jesus

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
Nikki Giovanni

Play, Old, Games

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
Nikki Giovanni

Art, Taste, Cultivate

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
Nikki Giovanni

Yourself, Matter, Far

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

Life, Cool, Thought

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

Good, Business, Proud

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: June 7, 1943

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