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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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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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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I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.
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But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
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Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.
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All these hierarchies of sexual value—religious, psychiatric, and popular—function in much the same ways as do ideological systems of racism, ethnocentrism, and religious chauvinism. They rationalize the well-being of the sexually privileged and the adversity of the sexual rabble.
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Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts.
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Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
