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Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni Quotes

Total quotes: 4

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Nikki Giovanni

Birthname

AKA: Nikki Giovanni

Birthday: June 7, 1943

Educated At: Fisk University, Columbia University, University Of Pennsylvania

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Writer, Poet

Total quotes: 4

“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.”

— Nikki Giovanni, The Mary Sue at NYCC: Don’t Write What You Know, Fight It!

Tagged: writer, Writer Advice, Writer's Truth, Writing, Writing and Expression, writing from empathy, Experience, Life

“The world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.”

— Nikki Giovanni, Nikki Giovanni: A Literary Biography

Tagged: Companion, Friendship, Friends, Relationship, Love ones

“Don’t want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.”

— Nikki Giovanni, A Poem of Friendship

Tagged: Friendship, Companionship, Understanding

“We love because it's the only true adventure.”

— Nikki Giovanni, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women

Tagged: Love, Adventure

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