Quotes By Nikki Giovanni

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

I'm just totally fascinated by people.

If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.

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.