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

I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.

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• My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Know
  • Story
  • Fix

• Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Feel
  • Glamorous
  • Lingerie

• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Working
  • Need

• You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Light
  • Control

• Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Working

• Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Humor

• At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • You
  • See
  • Yoga

• I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Colors
  • Icon

• Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Cool
  • Married
  • Entrepreneur

• I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • World
  • Work
  • How

• What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • Play
  • Investment

• All government, of course, is against liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Government
  • Liberty
  • Against

• Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Good
  • Think
  • Parent

• Belief contains so many truths pertaining to God's Names and the realities contained in the universe that the most perfect science, knowledge, and virtue is belief and knowledge of God originating in a belief based on argument and investigation.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.

  

  Campbell Newman
  • People
  • High
  • Last

• I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Ocean
  • Down

• About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Levine
  • People
  • Done
  • Best

• Sustenance for the infant and child is more than alimentary nourishment. The child needs love, security, narcissistic supplies -- however one may describe it.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • May
  • Security
  • Nourishment

• The only really safe thing to do is to write a diary of where you've been, what time you went to bed, what you ate. If I wrote honestly about everything I think it'd be a disaster. It would cause a lot of trouble.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I don't think there's anything wrong with sitting down with people as long as you understand that there are needs to be met and purposes to be served.

  

  T.I.
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I never had the slightest desire to be a major league manager, and all knew it. But Ban Johnson, Bob Hedges, and Jimmy McAleer persuaded me that the Browns were in a sort of a jam, and it was up to me, as an old standby, to do what I could.

  

  Bobby Wallace
  • Up
  • Desire

• I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • College