Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
What's the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in Wyoming because he's gay?
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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The darkness of clubs makes me feel much more secure, and you can hide behind smoke and lights.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good.
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I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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I never said, 'I wouldn't help a cricketer if he approaches me.'
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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
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I see feminism as a massive party. It's cool, the idea that 50% of the population can now start doing things and having fun and experimenting with their hair and makeup.
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God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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I was in the hospital for a month and a half of my first-grade year, so I missed a lot of school. I remember that I returned home from the hospital and there was a bicycle waiting for me in front of the house, a yellow and red bicycle with a big banana seat on it. This was 1980, and it's still my favorite bike.
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Although the story of George and Lennie in 'Of Mice and Men' ends on a depressing note, there is a peculiar aura of human dignity in it, a hint of redemption.
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I was never hiding from being gay; I just never talked about it.
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I think everybody has their own process as a leader, and I think for me it's ever-evolving.
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What's the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in Wyoming because he's gay?
