Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can't.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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The biggest killer of people is food.
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The development of methods to monitor protein dynamics in cells together with the discovery of specific and general lysosomal inhibitors have resulted in the identification of different classes of cellular proteins, long- and short-lived, and the findings of the differential effects of the inhibitors on these groups.
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I've never been on a date.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!
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The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'
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Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which their own interests are concerned; but fear is sustained by dread of punishment which will never abandon you.
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
