Imani

“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

“I am so hip even my errors are correct.”
― Nikki Giovanni

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

“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