Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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I'm never the best singer in the world.
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As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the ball. Down came the ropes. Down came the balls. Over and over again. Up. Down. All in rhythm. All identical. Like the houses. Like the paths. Like the flowers
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I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
