Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
Barbara Januszkiewicz -
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
J. M. Roberts -
I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
Rachel McAdams -
Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
Nathan Deal -
You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
Hansika Motwani
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
Patrick J. Kennedy -
Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.
Malcolm Fraser -
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
S. Jay Olshansky -
You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.
Karan Singh Grover
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When it comes to the periodic table, the United States really blew its chance to make a name for itself. If you look over a map of all the elements named for cities, states, countries, and continents, it's not surprising that European locales dominate the map.
Sam Kean -
I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
Rachel Cusk -
My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.
Daniel Cormier -
I really want to bring ensemble playing back to the forefront - not just for me, but for everyone in jazz. When you have a group, a true co-op group, you can really heighten the possibilities of all the treasures of jazz.
Aaron Diehl -
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
Samuel Butler
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
OATS - A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
Samuel Johnson -
They called themselves an army. They were planning on recruiting more armies. They were planning on splitting up and forming smaller cells and going into different areas, recruiting more members and just growing until they had started a full scale war in this country.
Patty Hearst -
The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.
Oswald Chambers -
The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the opportunity gap. It is a part of the broader set of challenges that we face in creating a more perfect union.
Barack Obama -
I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.