Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
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Girls love guys who dance, and I'm definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usually, you just see guys sitting around, but I definitely don't hold back when it comes to dancing.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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I love TV.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.
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Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.
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I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
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I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.
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I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.
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I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.
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I think it just takes one little snowflake to start a snowball to go down the hill. My contribution and, say, Kendrick Lamar's and some chosen others' start the snowball. That's all I can hope for. I don't know if I'm comfortable being quote-unquote a leader.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.
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Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
