Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
Nikki GiovanniYou must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
Nikki GiovanniStyle has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we canโt drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we canโt have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.
Nikki Giovanni