Nikki Giovanni Quote

We love because it's the only true adventure.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you sh...
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Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

it's a sex object if you're pretty and no love or love and no sex if you're fat
NIKKI GIOVANNI

show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person
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A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrac...
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I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in ...
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Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they g...
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Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts.
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
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Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the ...
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You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

Black love is black wealth
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I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and w...
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Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same ...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without gu...
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I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three p...
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There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick peopl...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I d...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

She sounds extremely creative, in that she turned historical figures into mythical figures. Obviousl...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk ...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what t...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can sk...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

We love because it's the only true adventure
NIKKI GIOVANNI

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick peopl...
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism ...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That ma...
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.
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Ego Tripping

I was born in the congo
I walked to the fertile crescent and bui...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though m...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

happyness is a state of mind
NIKKI

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service o...
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.
GIOVANNI RUFFINI

One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One of...
GIOVANNI FALCONE

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.
GIOVANNI NICCOLINI

Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.
GIOVANNI AGNELLI

I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy,...
GIOVANNI RIBISI

I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.
GIOVANNI RIBISI

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwin...
GIOVANNI GUARESCHI

You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a pho...
GIOVANNI RIBISI

Do as we say, and not as we do. [Lat., Faites ce que nous disons, et ne faites pas ce que nous fa...
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

I feel I've lost every part of me...there's nothing left but the parts I've given to you. I need you...
CASSANDRA GIOVANNI

Your voice has haunted every inch of my soul since the last time I heard it…my world had been so d...
CASSANDRA GIOVANNI

I’ve never had a reason to survive—no reason to question the way things were. I lived because I ...
CASSANDRA GIOVANNI

The biggest (growth) at our hotels came from business travelers.
GIOVANNI ANGELINI

They are doing very well, making good money, more money than the rooms.
GIOVANNI ANGELINI

We expect those room rates to increase another 6-8 percent this year.
GIOVANNI ANGELINI

This exquisite property is the culmination of a long search to find the perfect location to launch S...
GIOVANNI ANGELINI

Las Vegas is one of the most dynamic tourist and convention destinations in the United States, provi...
GIOVANNI ANGELINI

The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the big...
GIOVANNI AGNELLI

In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped u...
GIOVANNI AGNELLI

I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way.
GIOVANNI AGNELLI

And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the...
GIOVANNI AGNELLI

You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost po...
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

His hair stood upright like porcupine quills.
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

God has broken me in every way possible. I spent a year not caring, a year trying to figure out what...
CASSANDRA GIOVANNI

When I have lost all my illusions I search for them
GIOVANNI BOINE

The first priority of all concerned was maintaining operations at Heathrow with 35 percent less fuel...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

Airports take their own commercial decisions on their ownership structure. But this must not be at t...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

On the first or second pitch of the inning, I landed on my (left) heel instead of my toes in the del...
GIOVANNI CARRARA

For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm tak...
GIOVANNI RIBISI

I am because someone dreams me; a man who sleeps and dreams and sees me acting, living and moving ...
GIOVANNI PAPINI

If we reach our target of 100 percent for worldwide electronic ticketing in 2007, then the airline i...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

Sometimes hypocrisy is found in the least expected places. But always in abundance
GIOVANNI COLLAZO

All that we've had, all that we have, and all that will be ours will be lost. If not during our life...
GIOVANNI COLLAZO

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a ...
GIOVANNI GUARESCHI

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

Don't let others change your ways; only better them.
GIOVANNI JOUBERT

I am because someone dreams me; a man who sleeps and dreams and sees me acting, living and moving �...
GIOVANNI PAPINI

You that have said and done consciously or unconsciously good and bad things that you have to people...
GIOVANNI COLLAZO

You are who you are. people can either take it, or leave it. Never should you help people in any way...
GIOVANNI COLLAZO

We are filling the planes-and with high load factors-but there is a lot to do before the industry's ...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.
GIOVANNI FALCONE

La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate...
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner
GIOVANNI GUARESCHI

There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love
GIOVANNI PAPINI

He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with hi...
GIOVANNI FALCONE

Există ceva dincolo de reprezentare? Cunoașterea e o fereastră demnă de încredere spre real, sa...
GIOVANNI PAPINI

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienc...
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowin...
GIOVANNI RIBISI

The airline battle to reduce costs, increase yields and improve efficiencies is effective well beyon...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

Airlines moved fast after Sept. 11, re-engineering, restructuring. But governments have not played a...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

If one of the partners in a partnership is losing his shirt while the other is counting his money, i...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency ...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

Paper costs money...you do not need to be a rocket scientist to understand that up to $3 billion in ...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

We must chase paper out of our business,
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

Each dollar added to the price of a barrel of oil adds $1 billion in costs to the industry.
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

A European solution is no solution at all. Unilateral regional efforts will only distract from this ...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

We must continue to evolve to a low-cost industry that provides high-quality, cost-efficient service...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

Airports are important industry partners for airlines,
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienc...
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

Do as we say, and not as we do
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

If I make the team, I believe there will be a lot of chances for me to pitch.
GIOVANNI CARRARA

I'm ready... as much as I can be. I just missed too many days. You need to face batters, and I didn'...
GIOVANNI CARRARA

I've been leaving every pitch high. I know what I can do against these type of hitters and, right no...
GIOVANNI CARRARA

It's going to be fun. It's my first time to have a chance to represent my country and playing agains...
GIOVANNI CARRARA

It's going to stay here in Venezuela. Everyone knows Venezuela is a baseball powerhouse as the Carib...
GIOVANNI CARRARA

Last night he finally started to act OK. He saw his twin brother, and they started playing right awa...
GIOVANNI CARRARA

I want to thank the Dodgers organization and my teammates for their support and being behind me when...
GIOVANNI CARRARA

Thank God, we hope he's going to be OK,
GIOVANNI CARRARA

Sometimes you need government programs to commercialize some of these efforts.
GIOVANNI CORATOLO

However, we received so many outstanding applications that we are able to honor a broader segment of...
GIOVANNI CORATOLO

Small businesses are the backbone of America's economy, representing more than 99 percent of all emp...
GIOVANNI CORATOLO

Laws are applied to enemies, but only interpreted as regards friends.
GIOVANNI GIOLITTI

We're leaving sandbags at the ready. Even though all of them got washed away last time, we're hoping...
GIOVANNI GUERRERA

I thought it was going to flood last night. I was actually surprised it did not flood with the rain ...
GIOVANNI GUERRERA

I don't think we'll ever be really out of danger. It'll flood again, even with the (completion of th...
GIOVANNI GUERRERA

Foreign-born workers do not substitute perfectly for, and therefore do not compete with, most native...
GIOVANNI PERI

The consensus view is that immigration has a negative impact on the real wages of native workers. We...
GIOVANNI PERI

As a consequence, they do not harm wages in law, education and the social sciences, where most nativ...
GIOVANNI PERI

The U.S. is still able to attract very talented immigrants from across the world.
GIOVANNI PERI

We find no evidence that the American-born workers leave the city, but we do find evidence that they...
GIOVANNI PERI

Our work shows that cities with more diversity -- more immigrants -- in the work force exhibit highe...
GIOVANNI PERI

I Love Your Work
GIOVANNI RIBISI

I think Steven Spielberg has first movies! Martin Scorsese has first movies. I don't just jump into ...
GIOVANNI RIBISI

We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally w...
GIOVANNI RIBISI

It's not even the fact that it's a small independent film as much as it is whether it's good and whe...
GIOVANNI RIBISI

He spent four years writing it and he was very at ease on the set. At the same time he really knew w...
GIOVANNI RIBISI

I do have a certain technique [that] varies from part to part because everybody is different. But I ...
GIOVANNI RIBISI

Hopefully it will affect somebody and will inspire something. I'm not trying to manipulate what peop...
GIOVANNI RIBISI

Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned.
GIOVANNI RIBISI

I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a ...
GIOVANNI RIBISI

I was sitting on the bench. I envisioned the game that way. I was ready to step onto the field. I kn...
GIOVANNI SAVARESE

In one way yes, in other ways, no. Yes, because it was only three years and I did well. Still, it's ...
GIOVANNI SAVARESE

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains
GIOVANNI RUFFINI

I always say that in addition to being a coach, I'm also a priest. I go to each player's room and sa...
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI

That's the only way he knows how to play.
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI

He has a light leg injury, nothing serious. I think he'll be all right in 24-48 hours.
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI

We had lot of players leave, lots of new players come and a new coach -- it's a team that has to fin...
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI

The team needs a few matches to learn to play together. It's completely normal that the team and the...
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI

He scored a great goal. I thought he deserved another. He's young and has plenty of room for improve...
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI

We have to stop thinking about Sweden-Denmark. I'm sure they will play normally and honestly.
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI

We had that little bit of luck we have been missing all season.
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI

A positive result is essential even if the season is young.
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI

We'll see how he feels, I'll talk with him and the doctors and then we'll decide.
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI

Înţelege tot. Eu îl insult şi el mă urăşte. Sau invers" rîdea el.
GIOVANNI ARPINO

Mai tii minte cat visai? Mai visezi?
GIOVANNI ARPINO

Y la cuestión es ésta: la televisión invierte la evolución de lo sensible en inteligible y lo co...
GIOVANNI SARTORI

Tell me why it feels like you're a part of my soul?
CASSANDRA GIOVANNI

If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.
NIKKI SIXX

I've got so many mountains to climb and goals to conquer. I've got so many scars I want to l...
NIKKI SIXX

We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means wel...
NIKKI HALEY

Who's the new Ramones, who's the new Guns 'N Roses, who's the new Motley Crue, who&#...
NIKKI SIXX

I remember seeing 'Hairspray' when I was 15, and it is such a luxury to be able to see a Bro...
NIKKI BLONSKY

The only other thing that interested me as a kid was being a bricklayer. So if I hadn't become a...
NIKKI COX

People underestimate the stars and the connectedness they bring between spirit and matter. More ofte...
NIKKI ROWE

I love Starbucks. Maybe that's a bit sad. But I definitely need my caffeine. It's what gets ...
NIKKI SIXX

My logic used to be if I get angry at my boyfriend, he could say, 'Well, if that thing I do that...
NIKKI GLASER

My mom's the strongest, boldest woman I know.
NIKKI REED

You know, it's pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused for all those years...
NIKKI SIXX

The first place I ever performed was at CU Boulder. I went there my freshman year and discovered sta...
NIKKI GLASER

I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you&...
NIKKI REED

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of a...
NIKKI SIXX

My brother and I have matching tattoos on our arms. It says, 'Humility is strength,' in Port...
NIKKI REED

We met by chance, one split desiscion to turn right instead of left made no sense at the time but it...
NIKKI ROWE

There isn't any questioning the fact that some people enter your life, at the exact point of need, w...
NIKKI ROWE

There's only one place I want to go and it's to all the places I've never been.
NIKKI ROWE

Sometimes the only way forward is to let go and sometimes those things you are forced to let go of a...
NIKKI ROWE

Everything is temporary,
almost like a passing fase,
some of laughter
Some of pain...
NIKKI ROWE

Feeling fat lasts nine months but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever.
NIKKI DALTON

We've had some really good guest stars. But I have to go with Alec Baldwin as my favorite. He is...
NIKKI COX

I wear heels, and it's not for a fashion statement - it's ammunition.
NIKKI HALEY

I wear heels. It's not for a fashion statement, it's... ammunition.
NIKKI HALEY

American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that t...
NIKKI HALEY

I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with t...
NIKKI HALEY

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conserv...
NIKKI HALEY

I am the proud daughter of Indian immigrants who reminded my brothers, my sister and me every single...
NIKKI HALEY

You don't go to the people that are just like you. You go to the people that you have to earn th...
NIKKI HALEY

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.
NIKKI HALEY

I think any label is bad. I'm more than a label.
NIKKI HALEY

I think it's very important to get ego out of the room. I think it's important to realize it...
NIKKI HALEY

I'm a huge fan of women; I think we're great.
NIKKI HALEY

I'm not going to stop beating up on the Democrats for wasteful spending.
NIKKI HALEY

Immigrants have been coming to our shores for generations to live the dream that is America. They wa...
NIKKI HALEY

Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, a...
NIKKI HALEY

We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.
NIKKI HALEY

I've always felt like there are certain politicians that wear their religion on their sleeve in ...
NIKKI HALEY

Contraception doesn't define a woman.
NIKKI HALEY

What inspires me? I am so inspired every day. I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion....
NIKKI SIXX

You can't pee like a puppy if you wanna run with the big dogs.
NIKKI SIXX

Today, we live in a time of threats like few others in recent memory. During anxious times, it can b...
NIKKI HALEY

There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republi...
NIKKI HALEY

Republicans need to stay strong on the fact that marriage is between a man and a woman. Those are va...
NIKKI HALEY

His headstone said "Free at last, Free at last" - But death is a slave's freedom - We seek the freedom of free men - And the construction of a world - Where Martin Luther King could have lived - and preached non-violence

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His headstone said "Free at last, Free at last" - But death is a slave's freedom - We seek the freedom of free men - And the construction of a world - Where Martin Luther King could have lived - and preached non-violence

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