Quote by Nikki Giovanni
I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. Its really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me. – Nikki Giovanni

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I really dont think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I dont mind the failure but I cant imagine that Id forgive myself if I didnt try. – Nikki Giovanni

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In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. – John McCarthy

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Violence is a part of America. I dont want to single out rap music. Lets be honest. Americas the most violent country in the history of the world, thats just the way it is. Were all affected by it. – Spike Lee

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The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place, as I have argued. But their place is not simply back there in a separate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present. – David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country

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For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. – Louis LAmour

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Nothing is forever, if you have enough power tools. – S.A. Sachs

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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. – John Quincy Adams

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The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes anothers, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. – Leo Buscaglia

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It was my father who instilled the never say no attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination. – Marlee Matlin

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