“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
“Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.”Nikki Giovanni
“A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die”Nikki Giovanni