Nikki Giovanni

Quotes

• “Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experienc...”
• “I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write ...”
• “and sometimes I sitdown at my typewriterand I thinknot of someonecause there isn't anyoneto thinkabout and i wonderis it...”
• “I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrop...”
• “the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.”
• “Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.”
• “We love because it's the only true adventure.”