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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When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.
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Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
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A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.
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Life is a drink and you get drunk when you're young.
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I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
