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'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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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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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
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I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.
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Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.
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There is a disturbing reincarnation of socialist and nationalist dictatorships raising their heads around the world and even in our own back yard. You see it in places like Venezuela and Bolivia, stoked in no small part by Cuba, and also in Central Asia, and troubling trends in Russia and China.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
