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In this world, you only get what you grab for. — Giovanni Boccaccio

Nikki Giovanni, 'We love because it's the only true adventure. — Tracy Ewens

Thin lips trace bold lines across my skin with a single, lingering kiss. — Cassandra Giovanni, Let The Fates Decide

Courage you have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home. — Giovanni Giocondo

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant. — Giovanni Giocondo

Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy — Nikki Giovanni

Tell me why it feels like you're a part of my soul? — Cassandra Giovanni

FOR SONIA SANCHEZ — Nikki Giovanni

A lot of people refuse to do things ... — Nikki Giovanni

It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years. — Janine Di Giovanni

Sometimes
when i wake up
in the morning
and see all the faces
i just can't
breathe
from Sometimes — Nikki Giovanni

There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni. — Gustave Flaubert

I know who you are ... I've fallen hard for that person, and I sure as hell am not going to let you fade into your past. — Cassandra Giovanni

Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them. — Nikki Giovanni

We have a world to conquer ... one person at a time ... starting with ourselves. — Nikki Giovanni

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else. — Nikki Giovanni

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write. — Nikki Giovanni

I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important. — Giovanni Ribisi

In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved. — Janine Di Giovanni

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled. — Nikki Giovanni

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants. — Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart. — Giovanni Boccaccio

Far worse it is
To lose than never to have tasted bliss. — Giovanni Battista Guarini

Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone. — Nikki Giovanni

You ever tried sixty-nine, Lola? I think you'd like it. You're a good multi-tasker. — Bianca Giovanni

I don't have a life-style, I have a life. — Nikki Giovanni

Go take a shower, you smell like good sex and unnecessary regret. — Cassandra Giovanni

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content. — Nikki Giovanni

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore. — Nikki Giovanni

I prefer her [Nina Simone] jazz period much more so than her folk period. — Nikki Giovanni

We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to. — Nikki Giovanni

I'm just totally fascinated by people. — Nikki Giovanni

Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there. — Giovanni Giocondo

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.' — Nikki Giovanni

Who I really am keeps surprising me. — Nikki Giovanni

My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world. — Janine Di Giovanni

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes. — Nikki Giovanni

More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment. — Giovanni Ruffini

The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study. — Giovanni Ruffini

Paris certainly needs to promote itself. Although still the most visited city in the world, it has fallen behind London and Berlin in terms of cool. — Janine Di Giovanni

If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do. — Nikki Giovanni

The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth. — Giovanni Battista Brocchi

There are people who are seekers and people who aren't. — Janine Di Giovanni

Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together. — Nikki Giovanni

Love is blind. Lust isn't! — Don Giovanni

I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes. — Nikki Giovanni

Make me a weapon," I whispered as he pulled away. "Make it so I never have to dream about this again - make it so we can have this ... forever. — Cassandra Giovanni

Libraries ... house our dreams. — Nikki Giovanni

Every time I went to the doctor when I was in my twenties, he repeated the same thing to me: don't wait too long to have children. — Janine Di Giovanni

Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever. — Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

Humans: become atheists each and all! God will nevertheless welcome you with all his heart! — Giovanni Papini

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do. — Nikki Giovanni

Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him. — Matt Ridley

I'm an old storyteller. [When] I tell the story, it's about the story. — Nikki Giovanni

VISIBILITY - You've got to find a way to make people know you're there — Nikki Giovanni

I'd lost myself in the abyss of someone else's tyranny ... again. — Cassandra Giovanni

The problem with love is not what we feel but what we wish we felt when we began to feel we should feel something. — Nikki Giovanni

Black Poetry is not for Black People ... it is for everybody — Nikki Giovanni

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't. — Nikki Giovanni

Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come. — Nikki Giovanni

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other. — Nikki Giovanni

No perfection can last forever. Time tears at it; wears it down until it's nothing, just an empty shell. — Cassandra Giovanni

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way. — Nikki Giovanni

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good. — Giovanni Boccaccio

Moral certainty is never more than probability. — Giovanni Battista Beccaria

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait. — Giovanni Ruffini

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us. — Nikki Giovanni

Floating to shore ... riding a low moon ... on a slow cloud. — Nikki Giovanni

He was a throwback to a lady's old romantic notion of how a man should act. [Giovanni Tempesta] — Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco

Africa is a very dangerous place. — Janine Di Giovanni

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema. — Giovanni Ribisi

The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union. — Giovanni Agnelli

And sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it — Nikki Giovanni

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing. — Nikki Giovanni

I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong. — Nikki Giovanni

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past. — Giovanni Ruffini

We in the Black Arts movement, which wasn't really a movement but a group of people who had similar objectives ... — Nikki Giovanni

Only if there's an outbreak of the bubonic plague. — Giovanni Trapattoni

I am threatened by the resolve that you are my soul. You are my being, you are every breath I take, you are my home, you are my sweet sin. — Cassandra Giovanni

Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers. — Janine Di Giovanni

The hole where my heart had finally grown back after the loss of my parents was returning because of the very person who had filled the void — Cassandra Giovanni

For so long music has been my heart, but now it's you ... you're my heart. — Cassandra Giovanni

There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise. — Janine Di Giovanni

I hoped to burn out, through Hella, my image of Giovanni and the reality of his touch - I hoped to drive out fire with fire. — James Baldwin

We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies. — Nikki Giovanni

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul. — Nikki Giovanni

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant. — Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak. — Nikki Giovanni

I hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live — Nikki Giovanni

The fact is, feminism is not what it used to be. — Janine Di Giovanni

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt. — Nikki Giovanni

Tenzin said, "More popcorn, my boy."
Giovanni ripped the plastic bag open and held the paper bag. "This is ridiculous. I'm not a kitchen appliance. — Elizabeth Hunter

Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned. — Giovanni Ribisi

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side. — Janine Di Giovanni

We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be. — Nikki Giovanni

Black love is black wealth — Nikki Giovanni

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend. — Nikki Giovanni

We can't behave like crocodiles and cry over spilled milk and broken eggs. — Giovanni Trapattoni

Do as we say, and not as we do — Giovanni Boccaccio

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth. — Giovanni Boccaccio