Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Barbra Streisand
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.
Idris Elba
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I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.
Patrick Henry
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
Ramana Maharshi
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
Walter Dean Myers
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When reproached for spending too much time with books and clerks, Charles answered, 'As long as knowledge is honored in this country, so long will it prosper.'
Barbara W. Tuchman
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As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.
Patti Smith
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The global equalization of wages and the exponential growth in technology has created a job-killing machine that's only going to get worse.
Jeff Greene
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I like very confused people. The more confused, the more fun for me.
Cory Michael Smith
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I came out of the mall one day, and a guy was standing there with a coat hanger in his window, and I couldn't stop myself. I asked the stupid question. 'You lock your keys in the car?' 'Nope, just washed it, gonna hang it up to dry.'
Bill Engvall
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And like an unfaithful mate, once a car has let you down you never sort of trust it again.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
