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

Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.

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• We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

  

  Dana Delany
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• Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Me
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• The French complain of everything, and always.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Always
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• I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
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• I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you're only going to see when records are broken. And we're here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Song

• There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • School
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• When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Me
  • Show
  • Bring

• Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Mind
  • Like
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• I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Country
  • Pretty

• I move around, like a true Kazakh nomad.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • True
  • Like
  • Move

• I didn't really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the '70s - the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Always
  • Inspired
  • Mentor

• I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• Seeing how easy it has been to use Twitter for good has exposed the double-edged sword of how easy it could be to co-opt.

  

  Rachel Sklar
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  • Easy
  • Seeing

• I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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  • Years
  • Look

• If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Down
  • Run
  • Truck

• 'What is the secret of your serenity? Said the Master 'Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Serenity

• Long kurtas, especially the pink and yellow ones, that I had worn in 'Big Boss 8' - they are very comfortable to wear. You can wear them with a just a belt for your day outings or lunches for stylish and classy look. Or you can also team it up with a churidar and dupatta for an evening outing to look more classy.

  

  Karishma Tanna
  • Up
  • Long
  • Team

• I left school on my 15th birthday.

  

  David Bailey
  • School
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• Nigerians are wiser now. May efforts of Government to change Nigeria be crowned with success. May we live in harmony with one another, in a politically stable, economically strong, prosperous, virile, United nation!

  

  Sirika Hadi
  • Success
  • Nation
  • Harmony

• Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spread all too easily to victimize the next minority group.

  

  Coretta Scott King
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  • Violence

• Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Use
  • Helpful