What did Nikki Giovanni mean by: We obviously need the truth. We’re living in a country of lies. Nikki Giovanni Poet · USA Copy
+ Sacred cows make very poor gladiators. Author, September 11, 2023January 2, 2025, Nikki Giovanni, Conflict, Criticism, Tradition, 0 Nikki Giovanni Poet · USA
If you don’t understand yourself you don’t understand anybody else. Read explanation Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Nikki Giovanni, Empathy, Self-awareness, Understanding, 0 Nikki Giovanni Poet · USA
Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Nikki Giovanni, Improvement, Persistence, Practice, 0 Nikki Giovanni Poet · USA
And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Nikki Giovanni, Battle, Heroes, Understanding, 0 Nikki Giovanni Poet · USA
Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Nikki Giovanni, Education, Language, Writing, 0 Nikki Giovanni Poet · USA
If now isn’t a good time for the truth I don’t see when we’ll get to it. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Nikki Giovanni, Honesty, Priority, Timing, 0 Nikki Giovanni Poet · USA
+ We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection. Author, September 7, 2023January 2, 2025, Nikki Giovanni, Art, Connection, Loneliness, 0 Nikki Giovanni Poet · USA
I’m an old storyteller. I tell the story. It’s about the story. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Nikki Giovanni, Identity, Storytelling, Tradition, 0 Nikki Giovanni Poet · USA
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. Read explanation Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. Jeanette Winterson Author · England