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

The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.

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• If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

  

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• Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

  

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• I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

  

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• O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

  

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• Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

  

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• My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

  

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• I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'

  

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• I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.

  

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• I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.

  

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• If we are to survive the Atomic Age, we must have something to live by, to live on, and to live for. We must stand aside from the world's conspiracy of fear and hate and grasp once more the great monosyllables of life: faith, hope and love. Men must live by these if they live at all under the crushing weight of history.

  

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• The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Age
  • Difficult
  • Architecture