Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a sense of humor must be so sad all the time.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
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My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.
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I pick up on other people's discomfort.
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We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.
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He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.
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As Jules Renard said, no matter how much care an author takes to write as few books as possible, there will be people who haven’t heard of some of them.
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Judgment is such a useful shield, isn't it? We can hide behind it, rise above others on its crest, keep ourselves safe and separate.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
