Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
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One thing that helps to stretch me is to listen to other preacher's sermons. Every year, I will listen to at least ten other preachers, both to hear God speak to me, and also to evaluate their preaching to see what I can learn and how I can improve my own preaching.
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I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
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I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
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I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!
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Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
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If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.
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Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
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What we share with another ceases to be our own.
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I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.
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In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
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I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
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I like visual imagery in my head.
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.
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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
