Nikki Glass Quotes & Sayings

Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we are describing, ultimately we use either a metaphor; or we say "that's poetry in motion." You drink a glass of wine and say, "that's poetry in a bottle." Everything is poetry, so I think we come down to emotional information. And that's what poetry conveys. — Nikki Giovanni

America is an empire that does not wish to be one ; we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain the global order that allows democracy and prosperity to flourish. — Orson Scott Card

I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. — Frank Gehry

There is no lock strong enough nor wall thick enough to keep Death out," he murmured, his lips close to my ear so that I could feel the puff of his breath against my skin. The ends of a couple of his braids had found their way under the collar of my flannel night-shirt and tickled the base of my neck.
"Are you speaking literally or metaphorically? — Jenna Black

We are all more than our experiences
And less than our dreams
~ from "I Am Glass — Nikki Giovanni

Ready or not, I peer into your soul and dive deep... Your eyes don't like what I see. You don't want to be me. So you curse and smash the mirror which gets you what? A bit of blood , a handful of glass splinters, another source of pain. — Nikki Grimes

The crashing sound of years lost shattered in her ears, and new fears emerged from the looking glass. Sometimes I wonder if she'll ever sing again. — Nikki Grimes

I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame. — Damien Rice

Love Is An Act Of Valour. — Amit Abraham

Life is beautiful, you are beautiful, no excuses. — Miya Yamanouchi

From my new release, Cry for Me.
This is Bryen talking.
"Stop it, T! I knew; my God I predicted you would do this! Start blaming yourself for the sins of my sick brother. He's left a stench of rottenness from here to Illinois! — Toni Mariani

every time we remembered something, we weren't remembering the event itself but the last time we'd remembered it. It — Karen White

You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work. — Louis Antoine De Saint-Just