I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
Nikki GiovanniSchools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
Nikki GiovanniDon't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
Nikki GiovanniBlack Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.
Nikki Giovanni