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

If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.

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• When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

  

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• Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

  

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• Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

  

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• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  

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• I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.

  

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• I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.

  

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• I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

  

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• I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.

  

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• In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

  

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• In a democracy, power is not permanent.

  

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• I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

  

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• The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

  

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• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

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• I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

  

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• Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

  

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• I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

  

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• Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

  

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• She swallowed and looked down at the artichoke petals piled neatly on the side of her plate. Her center certainly felt like it was melting, growing soft and wet just from the rasp of Mr. O'Connor's voice. Why should a man already devilishly handsome also have a voice that could charm birds from the sky? It simply wasn't fair.

  

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• My background was fairly conservative, and I think there's a strong notion of duty in a background like that, and I don't think that's always helpful.

  

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• And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.

  

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• They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped people, because I've received many comments.

  

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• If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Strong
  • Fire
  • Cutting