Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

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• I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

  

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• My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

  

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• Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

  

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• William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.

  

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• The first information I consume in the morning is probably 'The New York Times' and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a really fascinating, easy way to stay on top of what stories are out there.

  

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• I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?

  

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• You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

  

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• I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.

  

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• I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have no difficulty assimilating it into what you’ve done before.

  

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• If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and in that way only can we protect our youth from the dreadful influence of such novels as 'Three Cycles, Not To Mention The Rug,' which dreadful book I have found within the past month in the hands of at least twenty children in the neighborhood, not one of whom was past sixty.

  

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• The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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  • Poet