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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Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And – and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.
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There are a lot of things that come easy, but they're not necessarily worth it. Anything worth having, you work hard for. That's how I feel I am.
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Valentino was apparently gay or bisexual. And his two lesbian wives. But without any question, he had sex with men. From choice. So he was one or the other.
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Making a strong first impression is as important as ever, especially when meeting face-to-face.
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It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.
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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
