Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
Hannah Arendt
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
Adam Grant
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
Warren Moon
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Keep your eye on the ball.
Ford Frick
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'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.
Kacy Hill
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When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots. Often, I was relegated to my origins, put in the diversity box: 'You're the new face of diversity.' That annoyed me because I always felt French, and suddenly I was being made to feel I wan't as French as others.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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There's Batman, there's Superman, there's Wonder Woman. She's the full-blown real deal.
Patty Jenkins
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Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.
Jim Wallis
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Being an astronaut, there are not a lot of things that have really shocked me in my life.
John M. Grunsfeld
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His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?
Matthew Shipp
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I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
