Nikky Quotes & Sayings

In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of the human being, naked and facing the natural world, desperate to feel. I did not realize while reading Render how deeply I was handing everything over. — Nikky Finney

In a battle, some soldiers of Guru Gobind Singh saw a Sikh named Ghanaya giving water to the enemy. They went to the Guru with their complaint. Ghanaya was called and questioned. Ghanaya's response was that he had not helped the enemy: as he went around the battlefield, he saw no friend or foe but only the Guru's face. — Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh

People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the only ones who do. — Gary Keller

He got down on one knee and begged Nikky's forgiveness while everyone in the office gathered around laughing and clapping - it was so cute - and really, you know, that's what it took with Nikky! My own hands clapped mechanically, but I thought What the fuck what the fuck what the fuck . . . this, again, directed at me rather than them. I — Blake Bailey

People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she's so serious and stoic. I'm the opposite. — Megan Fox

My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away. — Nikky Finney

I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it. — Adepero Oduye

Stop existing and start living! — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins. — Eric Avery

I remember saying to myself, those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they will truly be heard. I mean, that's what art is. Art is about being provocative; art is also about beauty and if you leave the latter out, the former doesn't matter. — Nikky Finney

Even the sky a hybrid - here clean and black and starred, there roiling with a brusque signature of cloud or piled in strata like folded linen or the interior of rock. — Stanley Elkin

I watch 'The Voice' and 'American Idol,' and I sit in my Brookstone foot massager. It's so exciting at my house. — Jennifer Love Hewitt

We have to deal with reality. The reality is, we have a number a very high number of illegal immigrants in this country. They're meeting an important economic need. And we are a nation of laws, and we're a nation of immigrants. And if we're going to address the real threats, then we need to have a temporary worker program to allow our Border Patrol agents to focus on the criminals and the thugs and the terrorists and the traffickers and smugglers that are trying to come into this country illegally. — Scott McClellan

Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work. — Nikky Finney

The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet. — Nikky Finney

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason. — Thomas Paine

Time is the lens through which dreams are captured. — Francis Ford Coppola

Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer. — Charlie Haden

One day I'm going to make love to you, Cass," he promised. "Make no mistake about it; that's where we're headed, where I want to go. But right now, I'm going to fuck you. I'm going to fuck you slowly and carefully and I'm going to make you come. — Nikky Kaye

Beauty is the gift of God — Aristotle.

With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What makes this book as important as anything published in the last decade is the irresistible music, the formal dexterity and the imaginative leaps she makes with metaphor and language in these simply stunning poems. This is a very, very important achievement. — Kwame Dawes

I'm a firm believer that people find their own passions. — Marcus Samuelsson