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''There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.''
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Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943), U.S. poet. conversation in London, Nov. 4, 1971, with James Baldwin. A Dialogue (1973).
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''If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.''
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Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943), U.S. poet. A Dialogue (1973).
from a conversation, Nov. 4, 1971, with James Baldwin in London.
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''White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.''
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Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943), U.S. poet. A Dialogue (1973).
from a conversation with James Baldwin, London (Nov. 4, 1971).
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''There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.''
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Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943), U.S. poet, and James Baldwin (1924-1987), U.S. author. A Dialogue (1973).
from a conversation in London, Nov. 4, 1971.
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''A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.''
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Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943), U.S. poet. from a conversation with James Baldwin, in London, Nov. 4, 1971. A Dialogue (1973).
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''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.''
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Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943), U.S. poet. from a conversation with James Baldwin in London, Nov. 4, 1971. A Dialogue (1973).
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''There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.''
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Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943), U.S. poet. conversation in London, Nov. 4, 1971, with James Baldwin. A Dialogue (1973).
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''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.''
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Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943), U.S. poet. Black Women Writers at Work, ch. 5, by Claudia Tate (1983).
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''Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.''
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Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943), U.S. poet. Black Women Writers at Work, ch. 5, by Claudia Tate (1983).
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''I always like summer
best''
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Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943), U.S. poet. Knoxville, Tennessee (l. 1-2). . .
Black Poets, The. Dudley Randall, ed. (1971) Bantam Books.
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