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

His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached nonviolence.

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• Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.

  

  Warren Christopher
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• I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
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• The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
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• Time stays, we go.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
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• When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.

  

  Ja Rule
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• Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• I come from a background where money has never been an issue.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
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• I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.

  

  Harmony Korine
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• I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.

  

  Washed Out
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• I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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• Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.

  

  Safra A. Catz
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• I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.

  

  Hailey Gates
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• I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.

  

  Sam Altman
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• It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.

  

  Eason Jordan
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• When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.'s, but you can't deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • Energy
  • Crazy

• The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.

  

  C. Wright Mills
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• Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.

  

  Zephyr Teachout
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• I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

  Colson Whitehead
  • America

• When we look at the universe, what we see by eye or with our telescopes is only five percent of the universe. The rest, 95 percent is dark. Dark meaning, first of all, not visible to our instrument. Second, dark also indicates our ignorance. We don't know what's the composition of this part of the universe.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Universe
  • Rest
  • Dark

• It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.

  

  C.J. Sansom
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• His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached nonviolence.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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