Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
Nikki GiovanniIf I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
Nikki GiovanniIf you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look at the Greeks and the Romans, right? It was always men. They never brought any women. Because women carry the seeds of the revolution, right? And if you have the men by themselves, then you can do what the French did with the Blackfeet, which is breed them out.
Nikki GiovanniWhen younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.
Nikki GiovanniYoung people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.
Nikki GiovanniIโm a big fan of historyโapplying the lessons as well as the joys and sadness. If we pay attention, we would see how we affect each other. In terms of time, we are not that far from one another. If we were to look back a century, it would seem like a long time; but, if we look at it by decades then itโs only 10 years, and by generations itโs only five.
Nikki Giovanni