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

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.

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• One who is persistent will excel.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Will
  • Persistent
  • Excel

• I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current in any way other than the fact that people will like what I'm doing currently.

  

  Pat Travers
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Up
  • Time
  • Wish

• As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • War
  • Mistakes
  • Celebrate

• If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Patience

• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Riot
  • Armenians
  • Azerbaijanis

• One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Free
  • Responsibility

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, 'What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused.'

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • History
  • Party

• I started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place - I like the people and the environment.

  

  Liang Chow
  • People
  • Environment
  • California

• I met Patti Smith, which is not Hollywood, but that really blew my mind. I love her. We were at a very small party, too, on a boat, and I totally fanned out. I told her that I loved her, and wasn't cool at all.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Mind
  • Small
  • Party

• When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Work
  • Children
  • Together

• If things are going slow, I'm itchy.

  

  Levon Helm

• There are a lot of things about Russian culture, art, music, photography and literature that I'm love with.

  

  Jamie Hince
  • Music
  • Art
  • Culture

• In a way, I don't want to know what's being said in casting offices, because it can get pretty brutal, and I don't want to have to think about the reasons why I don't get one job or do get one job.

  

  Anne Dudek
  • Why
  • Job
  • Pretty

• I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

  

  Kathy Acker
  • Work

• When I was a kid, I loved watching kung fu movies - in San Francisco, we had 'Kung Fu Theater' on TV on Saturdays, and they'd air old Shaw Brothers movies with English dubbing, things like that.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • Air
  • English

• If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out.

  

  Doris Roberts
  • Life
  • Evil

• It's always 'busy' with four children; it's chaos.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Children
  • Chaos

• The polls show that 10 percent of the public are ready to vote for me even though they don't know I'm running. We hope that figure won't drop when they learn I'm in the race.

  

  Eugene McCarthy
  • Running
  • Learn
  • Race

• And everything seems to have gone terribly wrong that can.But one breath at a time is an acceptable plan,She tells herself.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Time
  • She

• There's high, and then there's high, and to get really high--I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high--that's where I'm going...

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • High
  • Water
  • Walk

• We will see the presence of angels and we will see an intensification of miracles around the world.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • Angels
  • Miracles

• Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.