Quotes By Nikki Giovanni

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.