Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. The other collateral benefits from this, in terms of greater accountability, better public finance, more transparency, are, by definition, areas that take time to fully play out.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.
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I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
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Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn't play like any of them, though.
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It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.
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My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
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I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
