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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

“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

“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

“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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