Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.
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I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.
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'Day Men' provides a magnificent challenge in that it deals with a secret society within a secret society.
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You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
