More quotes by Nikki Giovanni

"Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy."
"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"
"Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste."
"I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops."