Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
-
Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
-
Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
-
I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
-
The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
-
In America, music is more tightly categorized.
-
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
-
Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
-
I can paint in jail.
-
Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
-
I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
-
I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
-
There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
-
If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
-
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
-
I don't worry about the things I can't change.
-
We always trend set.
-
In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.
-
We want the big stories, of course, of the great men, but there's as much drama and interest and lessons to be learned in actions that people like us take on a daily basis.
-
I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.
-
Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
-
The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.
