Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
And like an unfaithful mate, once a car has let you down you never sort of trust it again.Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Barbra Streisand -
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 -
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 -
I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.
Patrick Henry -
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 -
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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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
Ziggy Marley -
I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.
D. B. Sweeney -
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel Johnson -
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
Pamela Hansford Johnson -
I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
L. Ron Hubbard -
My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
Tate Donovan
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
Nancy Gibbs -
It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.
Gary Johnson -
Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
Ralph Nader -
I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.
Jack Zipes -
I am an inventor of music.
Igor Stravinsky -
I wanted to be the first female, young teenager producer, and it didn't happen. And when it finally did happen, I was shelved because I was signed to Warner Bros.
Kat Graham
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It's so important for people in political groups to learn the difference between productive criticism and not. When it's about something you can change, it's productive. But if it's just like "You are an evil person", you can't change that. There's no way around that.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill -
He took her up in his arms in the way of a bachelor who has had amateur experience of the carrying of nieces.
William Pett Ridge -
I wouldn't mind being in a relationship, but there's no reason to marry.
Marie Helvin -
We will watch very carefully what is happening in the economy and adjust policies appropriate.
Janet Yellen -
There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.
Kiefer Sutherland -
And like an unfaithful mate, once a car has let you down you never sort of trust it again.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.