Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.
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God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
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McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.
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I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
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Elimination race is my thing. I really enjoy that event.
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You need to have time to really hear God.
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If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.
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If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.
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Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract.
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The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.
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I think I need to continue to think and plan and marry all of the different things that we could do that make transportation in space from the earth to the space station, from the earth to the moon to space stations around the moon to visiting an asteroid.
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A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
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I am not trying to be better than my father. I am not trying to be like him. I am just trying to be myself and express myself how I feel.
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One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.
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Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.
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That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it.
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I don't like to drive. I don't like the aggressiveness that goes along with driving.
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I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.
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I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is my vocation to believe in them and in the fact that they'll interest people and maybe affect their lives.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
