“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
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“A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a blackmind.”
Nikki Giovanni
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“White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.”
Nikki Giovanni
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“If you don’t understand yourself you don’t understand anybody else.”
Nikki Giovanni
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“There’re two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.”
Nikki Giovanni
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“it’s a sex object if you’re pretty and no love or love and no sex if you’re fat”
Nikki Giovanni
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“Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.”
Nikki Giovanni
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“We love because it’s the only true adventure.”
Nikki Giovanni
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