More quotes by Nikki Giovanni

"the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by."
"and sometimes I sitdown at my typewriterand I thinknot of someonecause there isn't anyoneto thinkabout and i wonderis it worth it"
"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."
"Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste."
"We love because it's the only true adventure."