Nikki Giovanni Quotes

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

Nikki Giovanni

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 7, 1943

Topics

MeCivilizationSaidTrueTennis

The citizens of Michigan elect the justices to resolve the complex disputes that reach the Supreme Court, and we must not shrink from that duty.

Joan Larsen

ReachDutyResolveSupreme Court

It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder.

Jenna Elfman

MeComedyHarderThoughMuchProved

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

Robert Kiyosaki

MoneyGivingPersonPoorThemKeeps

If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.

Stockwell Day

EducationLawSexGradesWillSame

I did ballet, piano and all that - my brother did martial arts, my passion.

Michelle Yeoh

PassionBrotherPianoArtsBallet

I can't dance and I can't sing too well.

Michael Kors

DanceWellSingToo

I really enjoy recording right after a tour. We're tired, but the songs are really lived in by then.

Jason Molina

TiredEnjoyRightLivedRecording

If there is no God, the labels 'good' and 'evil' are merely opinions. They are substitutes for 'I like it' and 'I don't like it.' They are not objective realities.

Dennis Prager

GoodGodGood And EvilEvilOpinions

Price doesn't make deals, and salary doesn't control your career.

Christopher Voss

ControlCareerPriceSalaryYour

I'm always a realist, and I know the world of football is fast-moving.

Arjen Robben

FootballWorldKnowRealistAlways

If you'd come to me in 2012, when the last presidential election was raging and we were cooking up ever more complicated ways to monetize Facebook data, and told me that Russian agents in the Kremlin's employ would be buying Facebook ads to subvert American democracy, I'd have asked where your tin-foil hat was.

Antonio Garcia Martinez

CookingHatMeDemocracyAmerican

While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.

Allen Klein

GoodScienceBetterFeelLaughKnow

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