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

We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.

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• I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

  

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• I just want to do my job.

  

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• My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

  

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• I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

  

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• You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.

  

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• I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.

  

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• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

  

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• As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.

  

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• Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.

  

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• The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.

  

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• I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.

  

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• For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.

  

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• I think that's something people need to convey because you see all these celebrity moms out there, and the perception is they can do it all, but they have sooo much help. And it's kind of an unfair image to project for many women, because it is really hard, and if you have help, you should indicate you have help.

  

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• Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

  

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• If I am going to do something outside of Lady Antebellum, it's got to make a statement. Otherwise, why do it?

  

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• We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Women
  • Black
  • Identity