Nikki Giovanni

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

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.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.