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

I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.

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• Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

  

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• In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

  

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• Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.

  

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• It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

  

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• You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.

  

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• Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

  

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• Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.

  

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• The other day I was thinking - because I get a lot of headaches - I was wondering whether the head should be where it is. Because, at the end of the day, it's probably the heaviest part of your body, right? And yet it's at the top as opposed to, I don't, dangling at the bottom somewhere.

  

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• My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

  

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• Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.

  

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• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

  

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• It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

  

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• I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Diamond