Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes

My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.

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• When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

  

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• When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

  

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• When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.

  

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• One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

  

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• At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they've been dyed back much darker - like jet black, where you can't even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren't even the same color!

  

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• When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

  

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• I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.

  

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• For the naysayers that claimed 'American Family' revealed us to be vacant, unloving, uncaring morons of the materialistic '70s, this image will be proven wrong when Mom and Dad remarry... Make no mistake. This is not to emphasize the sadness of my demise but rather emphasize the love of my family and friends.

  

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• To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

  

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• I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.

  

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• I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

  

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• I was very young during 'Chachi 420' and don't remember much now.

  

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• Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

  

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• I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

  

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• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

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• Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My reply: 'I can't think of anyone I'd rather write for.'

  

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• Better to be disliked than pitied.

  

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• Sometimes I go, 'Wow, this is a director I really, really want to work with,' like David Cronenberg. I haunted David Cronenberg for years before, and then he offered me a role.

  

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• We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that.

  

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• Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music.

  

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• Nothing has been easy for me... I've always had to work for everything I've gotten and everything I've accomplished.

  

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• My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Mistake
  • Young