Nikki Giovanni - Write Quotes

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I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though many are hesitant to admit that they don't. 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.

Nikki Giovanni

I really hope no white person ever has cause
to write about me
because they never understand
Black love is Black wealth and they'll
probably talk about my hard childhood
and never understand that
all the while I was quite happy.

Nikki Giovanni

We didn't write a constitution... we live one... We didn't say "We the People"... we are one... We didn't have to add... as an afterthought... "Under God"... We turn our faces to the rising sun... knowing... a New Day... is always... beginning

Nikki Giovanni