Quotes from Nikki Giovanni

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

The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

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

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

If I deal with my block and you deal with your block, we'll have two good blocks.

People are making the most unbelievable statements about the other based on that kind of insistence that the person who disagrees with you fundamentally can't exist. These are political statements as well as biological and everything else.

VISIBILITY - You've got to find a way to make people know you're there

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

people say, "I didn't ask to be born," I think we did, and that's why we're here. We are here, and we have to do something nurturing that we respect before we go. We must. It is more interesting, more complicated, more intellectually demanding and more morally demanding to love somebody, to take care of somebody, to make one other person feel good.

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-

Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together.