Nikki Giovanni Quotes

Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

For us, #BlackLivesMatter is really a re-humanization project. It's a way for us to love each other again, to love ourselves, and to project that love into the world so that we can transform it.

Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.

Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black.

When I fall in love I take my time There's no need to hurry when I'm making up my mind You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine and I'll tell you why.

I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind.

I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.

I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.

The Nation of Islam was the biggest contributor to the Million Man March, but poor people gave their nickels, dimes and dollars; some wealthy Black people gave money to make that March a success - and every nickel, every dime, every dollar was accounted for.

The new Black doesn't blame other races for our issues.

Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.

The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.

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.

Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.

Who can be born black and not exult!

What I'm doing ain't about hating White people. It's about loving us.

Love is what we are in our essence, and the more love we feel in our hearts, the more it will be brought to us.

Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music.

Love is something you fall into.

I think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.

To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.

One of the many quotes on love..."Love can come only with time and sentience. We learn it as we learn language--and some never learn it well. Love is like a tool, though it is not a tool; something strange and wonderful to use, difficult to master, and mysterious in its provenance.

Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.

I love being a woman and I love being feminine.