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

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.

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• Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Women
  • Song
  • Imagination

• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Why
  • Bad

• We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Great
  • Quality
  • Value

• I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Looking

• Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Respect
  • New
  • Greatest

• When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Up
  • Me
  • Decision

• God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • God
  • Children
  • Care

• What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Romantic

• I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Child

• A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

  

  Oliver North
  • Fighting
  • Enemy
  • Win

• I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Future
  • Small
  • Choices

• I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Believe
  • Woman
  • Murder

• I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Think
  • Doing

• I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Bills

• Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.

  

  Lara St. John
  • American
  • Player
  • Green

• To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Education
  • Three
  • Uneducated

• Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Myself
  • Anger
  • Peaceful

• The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Long
  • Movie
  • Dream

• I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • People
  • Bad
  • Picture

• Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.

  

  Publilius Syrus
  • Life

• I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.

  

  Jason Newsted Metallica
  • Leaving

• I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • People
  • Giving
  • Interesting