Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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Marriage has made me safer.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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I'm very wary of news on television.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the 'Unforgettable' album.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
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Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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The only way we are going to get diversity is if the demographics of the decision-makers change... The odd-token bone thrown is not going to do it. Don't pat yourself on the back because you made that black drama; that's not diversity. It's got to be baked into the foundation of where the ideas flow from.
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There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford; there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter.
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I'm incredibly enthusiastic about the normalization, I think it's very promising. But I do think there are some worrisome aspects.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
