Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes

Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together.

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.

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• There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Game
  • Change

• Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Think
  • Washington

• 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.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Love
  • Marriage

• I'm really excited about the prospect of deepening what is already a really strong relationship that I have with the people of Broward.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Strong
  • Relationship

• We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • People
  • Government
  • Risk

• I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Dream
  • Action

• I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.

  

  Barry Zito
  • People
  • God
  • Sun

• In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Time
  • Hospital

• To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Together

• We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever.

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • Forever
  • Constitution

• Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • World
  • Interesting

• It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Problems
  • Racial

• If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'

  

  Caity Lotz
  • People
  • Movie
  • Want

• For me, I've been known as a very well-rounded fighter, and I think that's really important, that you're well rounded and comfortable in every situation that a fight can go. A lot of people focus on just one discipline, and when they get out of that, they're in a difficult position.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Important
  • Fight

• As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Development
  • Expectations
  • Rights

• Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
  • Music
  • Fashion

• It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

  

  Jeremy Taylor
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they've been doing they weren't sure it was right - lambies all over the world.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • People
  • World
  • Night

• I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People don't realize just how awesome the Arizona history is, especially for alternative music. Growing up, that's all I ever wanted to be was those two bands.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The writers who inspire me most are all women: Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie, Margaret Mitchell and Emily and Charlotte Bronte. As for contemporary novels, one of my favourites is 'Everyone Brave is Forgiven' by Chris Cleave. It's the sort of book to read if you've fallen out of love with reading - it reminds you just how brilliant novels can be.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Women
  • Love
  • Book

• I have cousins in North Carolina who talk in that old Southern style of 'yakking,' if you will. All the black men in my life when I was a boy talked that way, and I love that kind of talk.

  

  James McBride
  • Life
  • Men
  • Black

• Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Together