Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
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You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.
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Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
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Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
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When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
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Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.
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The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
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I don't fear anything now.
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The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.
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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
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The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
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You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear after that. Maybe I've lucked out because I came back and went to work.
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Thank you to the bowlers who frequented Fountain Bowl, many of whom have become our friends.
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The most powerful soporific is sleep itself.
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I would often get called in to play a very loud, obnoxious - which, truth be told, I can be loud and obnoxious. My issue was when it was like a ghetto girl; I didn't think I was good at it; I didn't feel authentic. And so I had insecurities about going in on it.
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You're a woman, at least you taste like you are.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
