Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. One of the world's most well-known African-American poets, her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children's literature. She has won numerous awards, including the Langston Hughes Medal, the NAACP Image Award, and has been nominated for a Grammy Award, for her Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection. Additionally, she has recently been named as one of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth7 June 1943
CityKnoxville, TN
CountryUnited States of America
it's a sex object if you're pretty and no love or love and no sex if you're fat
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.
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
Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
I am so hip even my errors are correct
Black love is black wealth
I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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.
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.
don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
She sounds extremely creative, in that she turned historical figures into mythical figures. Obviously, she's absorbing images and metaphors, and shows she's thinking. What more do we want a seven-year-old to do?
She doesn't have a lot of attitude. She was going about her business, and she was within her rights to be where she was. She wasn't trying to lead. She simply said, 'Enough. Here I stand.' I think people need to know that.