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.

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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.
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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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.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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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.
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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.
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I feel enormously proud to be part of East Anglia's Children's Hospices and to see the wonderful life-changing work that you do.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
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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.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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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.
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What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.
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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.
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Life isn't supposed to be easy. Generally speaking, the harder something is the more rewarding the results will be.
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Investor demand for distressed property has been healthy, as rents rise to levels that can cover investors' costs while they wait for properties to appreciate. Giving investors a small tax break should further juice up demand, supporting prices for distressed homes and the market in general.
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If you're interested in a book that will steadily grow and sell for a very long time, I promise you I will give you that.
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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.