Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
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I think twerking is overrated.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.
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The American public was lied to about the Vietnam War month by month by each of these five administrations Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon. It's a tribute to the American public that their leaders perceived that they had to be lied to. It's no tribute to us that it was so easy to fool the public.
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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
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One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't.
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We're all part of humanity. And maybe there's something about the worst people, with the most destructive, warped minds, that is just an acceleration of something that is in quite a few of us.
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People may say different things about Noida, but I had fun when I was staying there.
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I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.
