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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• 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 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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• People have been very strong against Obamacare since I was first elected, and they still feel that way. They want us to work to get rid of it. They also are very strong for keeping the government running.

  

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• All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

  

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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