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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No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it's pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it so early is because i believe the other guy isn't doing it and that gives me a little edge.
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What I particularly admire in him is the firm stand he has taken, not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives very clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
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Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.
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I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.
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But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.
