I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though many are hesitant to admit that they don't. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
Nikki Giovanni quote Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste
Nikki Giovanni quote Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person
Nikki Giovanni quote We love because it's the only true adventure
Nikki Giovanni quote Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to errors that counts
Nikki Giovanni quote Sacred cows make very poor gladiators
Nikki Giovanni quote Biography
Black American poet
