Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine.
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
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I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
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My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.
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We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
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The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity. They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine.
