Quote

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

Nikki Giovanni

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
Jr
Think
Thinking
Push
Useless
Image
Follow
Matter

More quotes by Nikki Giovanni

Image
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
Nikki Giovanni
Image
White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
Nikki Giovanni
Image
Who I am really keeps surprising me.
Nikki Giovanni
Image
You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
Nikki Giovanni
Image
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
Nikki Giovanni
Image
I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
Nikki Giovanni
Image
[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.
Nikki Giovanni
Image
We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
Nikki Giovanni
Image
My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.
Nikki Giovanni
Image
If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.
Nikki Giovanni
Image
Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
Nikki Giovanni
Image
We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.
Nikki Giovanni
Image
I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
Nikki Giovanni
Image
I am so hip even my errors are correct
Nikki Giovanni
Image
There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
Nikki Giovanni
Image
Who I really am keeps surprising me.
Nikki Giovanni
Image
Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
Nikki Giovanni
Image
I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.
Nikki Giovanni
Image
Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
Nikki Giovanni
Image
I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of I want to tell the people.
Nikki Giovanni