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Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
Nikki Giovanni
Love
A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.
Nikki Giovanni
People
Want
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
Nikki Giovanni
Art
Taste
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
Nikki Giovanni
Change
Growing up
Question
Will
I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
Nikki Giovanni
Life
Failure
Mind
I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'
Nikki Giovanni
People
Fact
If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
Nikki Giovanni
Choice
First
Key
If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
Nikki Giovanni
Time
Truth
Now
Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
Nikki Giovanni
Cows
Poor
You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
Nikki Giovanni
Games
Old
Play
There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
Nikki Giovanni
People
World
We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
Nikki Giovanni
Artists
End
Famine
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Nikki Giovanni
Love
Adventure
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
Nikki Giovanni
Spirit
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.
Nikki Giovanni
Skin