"The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn."

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Nikki Giovanni

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“It is my judgment that any man or woman can do more to conform to the laws of God in one year in this life than they could do in ten years when they are dead. The spirit can only repent and change, and then the battle has to go forward with the flesh afterwards. It is much easier to overcome and serve the Lord when both flesh and spirit are combined as one. This is the time when men are more pliable and susceptible. We will find when we are dead every desire, every feeling will be greatly intensified. When clay is pliable it is much easier to change than when it gets hard and sets.”
“I've always liked doubles. When you scald the ball on a line to the gap, I think that's about as close to a perfect swing as you can get.”
“I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes its fun, sometimes its annoying.”

Source : Interview with Novid Parsi, www.timeout.com. May 10, 2011.
“I often say that I'm a Buddhist-Episcopalian. I say that partly to annoy people.I like to annoy people who think that a religion can contain the whole truth. No religion, it seems to me, contains the whole truth. I think it's mad to think that there is nothing to learn from other traditions and civilizations. If you accept that other religions have something to offer and you learn from them, that is what you become: a Buddhist-Episcopalian or a Hindu-Muslim or whatever.”
“People in the East Conference are starting to see how good the twins are. They make my job easy. I just go to the net and look for holes and they keep finding me.”
“Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.”
“The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.”

Source : Catherine Mumford Booth (1883). “Aggressive Christianity: Practical Sermons”

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