Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Necessity creates everything in my life.
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Immigration has defined my entire life. My parents left Mozambique with nothing but their wits in search of a better life for their kids. They moved to England in the 1970s, saw the classism there, and left for America soon after.
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Reclassifying the Internet as a telecommunications service will have dangerous repercussions for years to come.
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Violet is the most soothing, tranquilizing and cooling color vibration. It encourages the healing of unbalanced mental conditions in people who are overly nervous or high-strung. Foods of the violet vibration are: purple broccoli, beetroot and purple grapes.
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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
