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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I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.
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Since the 1970s, international businesses have flocked to the South mostly for the cheap, nonunion labor and reliable quasi-fascist government/business circle-jerk guaranteed by “our orifices are open for business” state and county officials.
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Sometimes me think, 'What is friend?' Then me say, a Friend is someone to share the last cookie with you.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
