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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• If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.

  

  Floyd Skloot
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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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• The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using the tongue, upper palate, and teeth only. Those 'difficult' letters are B, F, M, P, V, W, and Y.

  

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• My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.

  

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• If you stop doing a skill you've done for years for any period of time, there's an adjustment period to get it back. In anything you do. Motor skills won't work as fast, because repetition is everything.

  

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• I am fascinated by this partnership between Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett. It's magic and I love it.

  

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• In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
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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