Nikki Giovanni

“The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.”

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

“Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.”

“When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.”

“we used to talk all nightand do things alone togetherand i’ve begun(as a reaction to a feeling)to balancethe pleasure of lonelinessagainst the painof loving you”

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

“I'm just totally fascinated by people.”

“Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.”