Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.
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There always have been funny women.
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When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
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I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
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I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.
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Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.
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I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.
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It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
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I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.
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According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
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Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.
