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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• I resent ever being stereotyped.

  

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• Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

  

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• A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

  

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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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• As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.

  

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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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• That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.

  

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• We've always believed in our music.

  

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• A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.

  

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• Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.

  

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• Seeing people get messed up never gets un-funny! And there's plenty of ways to do that.

  

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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