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...how else
to spend
a rainy day
other than with you
seeking sun and stars
and heavenly bodies

— Nikki Giovanni The Women and The Men (1970)

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The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

The Authority of a Writer (2024)

Poetry is the culture of a people. We are poets even when we don’t write poems; just look at our life, our rhythms, our tenderness, our signifying, our sermons and our songs.

I'm a big fan of the black woman and so I'm always looking at aspects of the black woman--what she's doing and how she does it.

The Authority of a Writer (2024)

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened…

Nikki Giovanni: Interview (2008)

If I were advising someone on a writing career, the deal is this: write. If you get it published, good. If somebody pays you, better, because you have to eat, but the deal is you have to write.

The Authority of a Writer (2024)

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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