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

Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because otherwise, it's stuck in this book and it's boring and it's academic and I'm not against intelligence and I'm not against education, I don't want to be misunderstood, but we have tell the stories to our young people a little bit early and history gives us a lot of things.

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  

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• There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

  

  Ida B. Wells
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  • Now
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• You mustn't upstage the bride.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
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• I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.

  

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• Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

  

  Naomi Wolf
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• You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

  

  Yeardley Smith
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• I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Good
  • Good Things

• It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.

  

  Owen Hart
  • You
  • Doing
  • Say

• I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

  

  Tamala Jones
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  • Job
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• I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

  

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• I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.

  

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• When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.

  

  Randy Houser
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• I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.

  

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• In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

  

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• I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

  

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• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

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• By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.

  

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• Each time that I have two or three days off, I'm off somewhere in California.

  

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• If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?

  

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• You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.

  

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• I am very shy with people I don't know.

  

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• Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because otherwise, it's stuck in this book and it's boring and it's academic and I'm not against intelligence and I'm not against education, I don't want to be misunderstood, but we have tell the stories to our young people a little bit early and history gives us a lot of things.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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