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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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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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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I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
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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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When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.
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With goals you can create the future in advance.
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In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.
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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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I am very sorry that Andy Coulson has decided to resign as my Director of Communications, although I understand that the continuing pressures on him and his family mean that he feels compelled to do so. Andy has told me that the focus on him was impeding his ability to do his job and was starting to prove a distraction for the Government.
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
