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, interview published in Black Women Writers at Work (1984)
~Nikki Giovanni, interview published in Black Women Writers at Work (1984)
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