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

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.

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• I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

  

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• I don't second-guess our playcalling or wanting to throw it. Honestly, we've got terrific guys. We know how to matchup. We know how to get open. That part of our game is so intact.

  

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• I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.

  

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• By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'

  

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• Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

  

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• I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

  

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• All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

  

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• I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!

  

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• The heart of the gameplay is still about choice and consequence, which is what I've been doing since the '80s.

  

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• The world is as it should be.

  

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• In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.

  

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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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• The thing I have in common with Donald Trump is, about a dozen years ago, we got a 'Man of the Year' award in New York City, the Hotel Plaza, from the USO.

  

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• I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.

  

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• I see what keeps people young: work!

  

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• Be who you like as long as you mean it.

  

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• First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.

  

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• My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.

  

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• It is thus that you may lead a charmed life and be forever protected from all harm; it is thus you may become a positive force whereby conditions of opulence and harmony may be attracted to you.

  

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• History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Wonderful
  • Deals
  • Ideology