Nikki Giovanni Quotes - Page 2

• We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Creativity, People, Leader

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• 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

  Fuente: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

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• Si no te entiendes a ti mismo, no entiendes a nadie más.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Felicidad, Inspiración, Éxito

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• 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

  Fuente: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

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• El amor negro es riqueza negra

  Nikki Giovanni

  Love Is, Black, Black Love

  "Nikki-Rosa" l. 24 (1970)

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• Todos los que aman la libertad adoran a Harriet Tubman porque estaba decidida no sólo a ser libre, sino a hacer libres a tantas personas como pudiera.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Gente, Decidida, Amor Libertad

  Entrevista con Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. Abril de 2007.

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• Es evidente que necesitamos la verdad. Vivimos en un país de mentiras.

  Nikki Giovanni

  País, Mentir, Necesidades

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• Realmente no creo que la vida se trate de los yo-podría-haber-sido. La vida es sólo el yo-intenté-hacer. No me importa el fracaso, pero no puedo imaginar que me perdonaría no haberlo intentado.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Inspiración, Vida, Inspiración

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). "Vacas sagradas... y otros comestibles", William Morrow & Co.

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• 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.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Book, Writing, Empathy

  Nikki Giovanni (1992). “Conversations with Nikki Giovanni”, p.139, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Mucha gente se niega a hacer cosas porque no quiere ir desnuda, no quiere ir sin garantías. Pero eso es lo que tiene que pasar. Vas desnudo hasta que mueres.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Inspiring, Reality, People

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• Quién soy realmente no deja de sorprenderme.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Sorprendente

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). "Vacas sagradas... y otros comestibles", William Morrow & Co.

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• Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Art, Reality, Taste

  Nikki Giovanni, Margaret Walker (1974). "Una ecuación poética: conversaciones entre Nikki Giovanni y Margaret Walker", Howard Univ Pr

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

  Nikki Giovanni

  World, Pleasant

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

  Nikki Giovanni

  Inspiring, Growing Up, Justice

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). "Vacas sagradas... y otros comestibles", William Morrow & Co.

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

  Nikki Giovanni

  Love, African American, Responsible

  Nikki Giovanni (1975). “The women and the men”, William Morrow &Company

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• No one needs to teach you to be mean; we need to be taught to be kind.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Mean, Needs, Be Kind

  "It's No Secret - An interview with poet Nikki Giovanni". Interview with John Kryder, artvoice.com. April 3, 2008.

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• Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we are describing, ultimately we use either a metaphor; or we say "that's poetry in motion." You drink a glass of wine and say, "that's poetry in a bottle." Everything is poetry, so I think we come down to emotional information. And that's what poetry conveys.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Art, Wine, Emotional

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• I used to dream militant dreams of taking over america to show these whitefolks how it should be done i used to dream radical dreams of blowing everyone away with my perceptive powers of correct analysis i even used to think that i'd be the one to stop the riot and negotiate the peace then i awoke & dug that if i dreamed natural dreams of being a natural woman doing what a woman does when she's natural i would have a revolution.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Dream, Thinking, America

  Nikki Giovanni (1970). “Re:creation”, Broadside Pr

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• I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

  Nikki Giovanni

  Learning, Responsibility, Listening

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• Escribimos porque creemos que el espíritu humano no se puede domesticar ni se debe adiestrar.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Believe, Writing, Spirit

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). "Vacas sagradas... y otros comestibles", William Morrow & Co.

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• Una cara blanca va con una mente blanca. Ocasionalmente una cara negra va con una mente blanca. Muy raramente una cara blanca tendrá una mente negra.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Blanco, Negro, Mente

  1971 Conversación con James Baldwin, Londres, 4 nov. Recogida en A Dialogue (1973).

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• I don't have a life-style, I have a life.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Style, Lifestyle, Life Style

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). "Vacas sagradas... y otros comestibles", William Morrow & Co.

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• History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Quitting, Wonderful, Deals

  Entrevista con Nicole Sealey, mosaicmagazine.org. 6 de septiembre de 2013.

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• If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want

  Nikki Giovanni

  Jobs, Want, Satisfied

  Nikki Giovanni, “Choices”

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• Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Daddy, World, Beats

  "The Drum". Poem by Nikki Giovanni, September 30, 2011.

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