Top 100 Giovanni Quotes
#1. Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
Nikki Giovanni
#2. The problem with love is not what we feel but what we wish we felt when we began to feel we should feel something.
Nikki Giovanni
#3. You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
Nikki Giovanni
#4. Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.
Nikki Giovanni
#5. I hoped to burn out, through Hella, my image of Giovanni and the reality of his touch - I hoped to drive out fire with fire.
James Baldwin
#6. We in the Black Arts movement, which wasn't really a movement but a group of people who had similar objectives ...
Nikki Giovanni
#7. No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
Giovanni Boccaccio
#8. Go to hell, Giovanni."
"Tesoro, take a good look at me. You've already put me there.
Bethany-Kris
#9. I have people calling me cute. Like I'm a fucking puppy!" she sneered at me, pushing me aside in order to continue on her way. "I am Melody Giovanni Callahan, cute is not the adjective used to describe me!
J.J. McAvoy
#10. Poets should be ashamed
To die
Before they kiss
The sun
Nikki Giovanni
#11. Fiammetta, whose wavy tresses fell in a flood of gold over her white and delicate shoulders
Giovanni Boccaccio
#12. It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
#13. I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
Nikki Giovanni
#14. Paris certainly needs to promote itself. Although still the most visited city in the world, it has fallen behind London and Berlin in terms of cool.
Janine Di Giovanni
#15. A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.
Giovanni Ruffini
#16. I've loved many women ... I'm not going to lie to you, but it never works ... vanity always gets in the way.
Cassandra Giovanni
#17. One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.
Nikki Giovanni
#19. I loved him desperately, completely, and he wasn't threatening to consume me anymore. He already had. Everything that was me was him. My heart, mind and soul all were as much a part of him as they were me.
Cassandra Giovanni
#20. But there is an overarching passion that keeps me alive. That is love, understood as a condition in which I can be an inspiration, make someone feel happy and special, and in turn, feel understood and driven. I function better if I am in that condition of love, and I try to cultivate that daily.
Giovanni Frazzetto
#21. Oh Lola's Boobs,' he says into my chest, 'I wish we knew each other better.'
I crack up laughing.
'What's that you say?' he jokes, putting his ear to my right breast. 'You wish you could come out to play more often but Lola doesn't let you? Well, that's a shame.
Bianca Giovanni
#22. Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together.
Nikki Giovanni
#23. Nikki Giovanni! I got a book of hers from the library, and there was this woman who could paint me on paper with words - my whole little experience. I thought it was wonderful.
Jill Scott
#25. We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
Nikki Giovanni
#26. Now I'm reading an old article on San Giovanni a Carbonara, where it explains what the Carbonara or Carboneto was. I thought that there was coal there once, and coal miners. But no, it was the place for the
Elena Ferrante
#28. Bless his heart, Giovanni doesn't try to put a reassuring arm around me, nor does he express the slightest discomfort about my explosion of sadness. Instead, he just sits through my tears in silence, until I've calmed down.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#29. The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
Nikki Giovanni
#30. I want to express our grieve and condolences to the families of two hostages: one American, Dr. Warren Weinstein and an Italian Giovanni LaPorto who were tragically killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation.
Barack Obama
#32. The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.
Nikki Giovanni
#33. To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the tanks or the RPGs or military strategy. It's always about the effect war has on civilians, on society, and how it disrupts and destroys lives.
Janine Di Giovanni
#34. Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine.
Nikki Giovanni
#35. Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find that earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage, then to claim it: that is all!
Giovanni Giocondo
#36. The Directing and Penetrating Vessels originate from the Lower Dan Tian [literally 'Bao'].
Giovanni Maciocia
#38. And i've begun
(as a reaction to a feeling)
to balance
the pleasure of loneliness
against the pain
of loving you
from Balances
Nikki Giovanni
#39. In tactics, no information is better than too much ... because at some point the players stop reading and stop thinking.
Giovanni Guidetti
#40. It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It's not that they are tight with money - they just don't trust anyone.
Janine Di Giovanni
#42. More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment.
Giovanni Ruffini
#43. Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.
Nikki Giovanni
#45. We can't behave like crocodiles and cry over spilled milk and broken eggs.
Giovanni Trapattoni
#46. It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.
Giovanni Boccaccio
#47. 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
#48. The world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.
Nikki Giovanni
#49. You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
Nikki Giovanni
#51. In return, Giovanni told me that empathizing Italians say L'ho provato sulla mia pelle, which means 'I have experienced that on my own skin.' Meaning, I have also been burned or scarred in this way, and I know exactly what you're going through.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#52. If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.
Nikki Giovanni
#53. If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.
Nikki Giovanni
#54. Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to be myself.
Cassandra Giovanni
#55. [My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.
Nikki Giovanni
#56. The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.
Nikki Giovanni
#57. If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.
Nikki Giovanni
#59. Kissed mouth don't lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.
Giovanni Boccaccio
#60. Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
Nikki Giovanni
#61. If you are sitting there waiting for someone to tell you how wonderful you are, you'll never get anything done. Women need to get over being women. I'm tired of that socialization of women; that we are always supposed to be sitting around pleasing somebody.
Nikki Giovanni
#62. DONT EVER BE AFRAID TO COME TO ME N CRY ... DONT EVER HESITATE TO LOOK ME N THE EYE DONT EVER BE AFRAID TO TELL ME HOW YOU FEEL. REMEMBAER YOUR MY GIRL N WE GOTTA KEEP IT REAL.
Nikki Giovanni
#63. There, as the sacred mysteries tell us, the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones occupy the first places; but, unable to yield to them, and impatient of any second place, let us emulate their dignity and glory. And, if we will it, we shall be inferior to them in nothing.
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
#64. Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
Nikki Giovanni
#65. At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being.
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
#66. If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
Nikki Giovanni
#67. Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
#68. Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
Nikki Giovanni
#69. They didn't understand, for we were Shakespeare, and they were mere actors in the play.
Cassandra Giovanni
#70. Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.
Nikki Giovanni
#71. I'm not sure that finding a husband at university made me any less of a feminist or an academic. I still soaked up Susan Faludi; I still read Doris Lessing. But I did it at the same time I met someone who I felt was my soulmate.
Janine Di Giovanni
#72. Later, in describing its narrow escape, the creature credited doubly good luck in having mimicked the shape of a harmless doll and the fact that the paranormal investigators had been looking for a hump-free boggart. 3.
Giovanni Valentino
#73. I don't think that many people today, understand the nature of what an improv does for an actor in a specific setting. What an improv does for an actor is help him find the life; it's the life that an actor's after.
Giovanni Ribisi
#74. Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers.
Janine Di Giovanni
#76. Airport take their own commercial decisions on their ownership structure. But this must not be at the expense of exploiting airlines through higher charges
Giovanni Bisignani
#77. Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.
Nikki Giovanni
#78. If loneliness were a grape
the wine would be vintage
If it were a wood
the furniture would be mahogany
But since it is life it is
Cotton Candy
on a rainy day
The sweet soft essence
of possibility
Never quite maturing
from Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
Nikki Giovanni
#79. We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
Nikki Giovanni
#80. Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass players - anyone in music can rise to make a major statement but in poetry there are only words to do the work. And they do sometimes have to sweat.
Nikki Giovanni
#81. God has broken me in every way possible. I spent a year not caring, a year trying to figure out what I'd done to deserve it. and a year trying to make it right.
Cassandra Giovanni
#83. In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.
Janine Di Giovanni
#84. If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me.
Giovanni Ribisi
#85. It's always disappointing to come across phony do-gooders. And it's easy to scoff at celebrities working in war zones.
Janine Di Giovanni
#87. Poetry is motion graceful
as a fawn
gentle as a teardrop
strong like the eye
finding peace in a crowded room
Nikki Giovanni
#88. I have always loved to begin with the facts, to observe them, to walk in the light of experiment and demonstrate as much as possible, and to discuss the results.
Giovanni Arduino
#89. The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.
Nikki Giovanni
#90. The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.
Giovanni Ruffini
#91. Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.
Giovanni Ruffini
#92. If i can't have what i want ... then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want
Nikki Giovanni
#93. You ever tried sixty-nine, Lola? I think you'd like it. You're a good multi-tasker.
Bianca Giovanni
#95. I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.
Nikki Giovanni
#96. We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
Nikki Giovanni
#97. I love her more than anything in this whole fucking world, including you!
Cassandra Giovanni
#98. I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, "If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on." I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.
Nikki Giovanni
#99. My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world.
Janine Di Giovanni
#100. Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him.
Matt Ridley
