More quotes by Nikki Giovanni

"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."
"I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops."
"Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste."
"the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by."