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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.»
«We love because it's the only true adventure»
«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.»
«Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.»
Author: Nikki Giovanni (Poet) | About: Mistakes | Keywords: counts, error, facts of life, response
«If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.»
Author: Nikki Giovanni (Poet)
«We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.»
Author: Nikki Giovanni (Poet) | Keywords: tamed, trained
«It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.»
Author: Nikki Giovanni (Poet)
«Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.»
Author: Nikki Giovanni (Poet)
«don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.»
Author: Nikki Giovanni (Poet)
«It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.»
Author: Nikki Giovanni (Poet)

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