Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
VISIBILITY - You've got to find a way to make people know you're there
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal.
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Earlier in my career, fans weren't a big consideration for me.
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I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.
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I think calling what Paul Ryan is doing a 'budget' is lending some validity to it. It is not a budget. If it were a budget, he could justify his revenue projections, he could justify his cuts, and he can't. This is a scheme to rob the poor and give to the rich.
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When we start using religion as a bludgeon in politics, when we start questioning other people's faith, we start using religion to divide, instead of bring the country together, then I think we've got a problem.
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VISIBILITY - You've got to find a way to make people know you're there
