Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
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The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
Keinan Abdi Warsame
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
Gary Ackerman
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
K. D. Lang
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
Abdolkarim Soroush
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I think what I've learned to focus on is my music, and that's why I made my record independently.
Aubrie Sellers
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I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.
Axl Rose
Guns N' Roses
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For me personally, I was just worried that transitioning from a podcast, which is a very intimate sort of experience - people tell me they listen to my podcast while they're at the gym or on road trips, so you're in someone's ear - to being on television - that's a lot of space to fill.
Phoebe Robinson
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Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years, it's a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment, and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name. [But] it's time to expand and move on.
Yasiin Bey
Black Star
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You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.
John Stossel
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If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.