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.Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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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.
Adam Hamilton -
I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
Zendaya -
I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
Karlie Kloss -
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.
Malaika Arora Khan -
Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
Zubin Mehta -
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
Lao Tzu
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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
Octavia Spencer -
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
H. L. Mencken -
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!
Queen Latifah -
Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
Oscar Peterson -
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.
G-Eazy -
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
Hans Hofmann
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If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.
Carli Lloyd -
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
Nana Mouskouri -
What we share with another ceases to be our own.
Edgar Quinet -
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.
Adam Johnson -
In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
Natalie Portman
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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
J. G. Ballard -
I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower.
Sherman Alexie -
I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
When Hillel died, it was during one of the happiest times of my life. I was married and completely in love and had a baby on the way.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.