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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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.
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Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.
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Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.
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In music industry they always want you to write something like the one that was popular. And that's something you kind of have to just - sometimes you just say yes to people, like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure," and then you just write the one you want to write.
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VISIBILITY - You've got to find a way to make people know you're there
