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

Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.

• Love
• Moments
• Spiritual
• Moment
• Affinity

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• The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.

  

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• Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

  

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• If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

  

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• Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.

  

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• For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.

  

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• I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.

  

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• I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.

  

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• Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

  

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• Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.

  

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• Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.

  

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• I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.

  

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• I've always dreamed of having a large family.

  

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• Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

  

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• You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.

  

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• This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

  

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• I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

  

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• If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.

  

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• Love is eternal – the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.

  

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• Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Love
  • Moments
  • Spiritual