We have a world to conquer ... One person at a time ... Starting with ourselves.

Nikki Giovanni, Racism 101 (1994)

Today's clouds can never deny yesterday's beautiful sunset. The inconvenience of today's storms can never turn us from tomorrow's harvest. We plant, we reap, we try because we are human. We hope, we continue. Our soul is rested, but it will have to get up in the morning and start again.

Nikki Giovanni, Racism 101 (1994)

My task? To find something I loved that did not require me to change my physical habits while allowing me to grow emotionally and intellectually.

Nikki Giovanni, Racism 101 (1994)

Life is not a problem similar to science or mathematics where solutions can be discerned and tested. Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together.

Nikki Giovanni, Racism 101 (1994)

It's easy for the top to be friendly - they are well paid and well benefited for it; the others speak from the heart.

Nikki Giovanni, Racism 101 (1994)

I mean, it is so illogical to think that any system that intended to support life first created 'man.'

Nikki Giovanni, Racism 101 (1994)

It's so ... well ... Christian ... to hate the deed yet love the doer.

Nikki Giovanni, Racism 101 (1994)

Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking.

Nikki Giovanni, Racism 101 (1994)