Imani

“Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts.”
― Nikki Giovanni

“If you don’t understand your past, you can’t transcend it, you might repeat it, you don’t understand half of your life. Knowledge is what’s important, you know? Not the erasure, but the confrontation of it.”
― Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.”
― Nikki Giovanni, Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea

“We've got to live in the real world. If we don't like the world we're living in, change it. And if we can't change it, we change ourselves. We can do something.”
― Nikki Giovanni