Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
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All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
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My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.
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Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.
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There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.
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I think a lot of mothers are doing as I am: starting up their own ventures as their children grow older, and having a kind of second blooming.
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Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.
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When you're young and dating someone, just play it safe and don't try so hard.
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My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.
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The Coolidge Bull market was a remarkable phenomenon. The ruthlessness of its liquidation was, in its own way, equally remarkable.
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I don't regret anything I've ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.
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That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has always been a struggle in our politics.
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If you need counsel, start with the One who is both Counselor and King - the One who is the source of both wisdom and power.
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There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
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There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
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The other was that all the major civil rights organizations, new as well as old, were committed to the philosophy of non-violence, the doctrine preached by the most conspicuous leader in the Negro movement, Martin Luther King. ‘We will soon wear you down by our capacity to suffer,’ he told the whites, ‘and in winning our freedom we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.
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Better a thousand times err on the side of over-readiness to fight, than to err on the side of tame submission to injury, or cold-blooded indifference to the misery of the oppressed.
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But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.
