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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For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.
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Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a stream unheard before, and you are where breathing is prayer.
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With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.
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Other than the obvious, like Cher and Diana Ross, I actually find a lot of inspiration from time periods. So it's not necessarily people, it's the essence of the time period, whether it be the '90s or the '70s or the '40s. The specific time and what vibe it gave you, what the emotion of that time was, and trying to get that emotion again.
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People have lots of money in super, but they have no money in the bank, and the super funds are not built to help people buy property.
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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.
