Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.
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Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.
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I can't really have any friends. It's sad, really. It's lonely. But that's how I am.
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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
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And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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History proves nothing because it contains everything.
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I got a lot out of 'Brothers & Sisters' and learnt some incredible things and I think it certainly had come to a natural ending, so it was definitely time to move on.
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Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people in our own lives.
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We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
