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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• I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

  

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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.

  

  Laura Mennell
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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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• Such groundless fears will arise in the mind, before it has resumed its vigour after sleep!

  

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• After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.

  

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• Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.

  

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• I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

  

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• Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.

  

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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