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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
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Nikki Giovanni
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.
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