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 was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.
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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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After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times and then one night it'll flop. And that's when I really take a hard look at myself and say: 'Well, that crowd is obviously wrong. That crowd has absolutely no idea what it's talking about.
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If you came from Mars and tried to analyse British or American society through novels, you'd think our society was preponderantly full of middle-aged, slightly alcoholic, middle-class, intellectual men, most of whom are divorced from their families and have nothing to do with children.
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Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.
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We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in their science fiction, robots are seen as good. They have Astro Boy, this character they've fallen in love with and he's fundamentally good, always there to help people.
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When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more.
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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?
