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 live those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.
—Nikki Giovanni
Topics: Helpfulness
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.
—Nikki Giovanni
Topics: Reading
If you don’t understand yourself you don’t understand anybody else.
—Nikki Giovanni
Topics: Understanding
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate a taste.
—Nikki Giovanni
Topics: Art
I’m glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility.
—Nikki Giovanni
Topics: Listening
In the name of peace
They waged the wars
Ain’t they got no shame.
—Nikki Giovanni
Topics: Peace
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
—Nikki Giovanni
Topics: Growth, Change
There’re two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
—Nikki Giovanni
Topics: Slavery
We love because it’s the only true adventure.
—Nikki Giovanni
Topics: Love
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.
—Nikki Giovanni
Topics: Mistakes
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- Elizabeth Prentiss American Children’s Books Writer
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- e. e. cummings American Poet, Writer, Painter
- Carl Sandburg American Poet, Historian
- Phyllis McGinley American Children’s Books Writer
- James Whitcomb Riley American Children’s Books Writer
- May Sarton American Children’s Books Writer
- Jamie Lee Curtis American Actress
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