Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
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I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.
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I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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I just write mechanical things.
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I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
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I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.
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There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
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The machine of awards season is very stressful. But this is the Oscars! It's your peers, your heroes, people you admire, the people who inspired you to get into this work in the first place. It's a pretty overwhelming feeling when you think about it.
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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
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It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.
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When you are given immunity that means that you've probably committed a crime.
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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
