Nichelle Quotes & Sayings

Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating with her learning that studio executives were withholding her fan mail, she submitted her resignation. She withdrew it when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. convinced her that her role was too important a cultural breakthrough to leave. — Nichelle Nichols

I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show. — Nichelle Nichols

It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else. — Nichelle Nichols

I feel very lucky that I don't have to rely on a man to give me financial security. That's a big deal. — Kirsten Dunst

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I'm afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities? — Candace Bushnell

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead. — E. E. Cummings

A child has a deep longing to discover that the World is based on Truth. Respect that longing. In our attempt to help children grow into Inspired Adults, we wish them to carry the Youthfulness of their Souls, and the Wonders of Childhood into their old age.'
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I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we count only the suicides of Sappho, Lawrence Hope and Charlotte Mew, their despair rate has been very high. — Anna Wickham

Charlie X)? Those were the hints, as far as I'm concerned. — Nichelle Nichols

I saw Nichelle Nichols in 'Truck Turner,' and she was so good. — Kym Whitley

never be, try to become — Nichelle Walker

Science is not a boy's game, it's not a girl's game. It's everyone's game. It's about where we are and where we're going. Space travel benefits us here on Earth. And we ain't stopped yet. There's more exploration to come. — Nichelle Nichols

All men are dogs, Nichelle, and if you don't feed your dog, you can't be surprised when he's in the neighbor's trash looking for food. — Norian F. Love

Most people fail to realize that in life, it's not how much money you make, it's how much money you keep. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

We never have that thought! The whole object is to bite off more than you can chew. John [Du Prez] always says, Eric thinks of something completely insane and insists we go in that direction. It's the correct way to look at things and the correct place to start, I think. — Eric Idle

He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy, and is afraid of solitude.59 Such — Will Durant

Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago. — Nichelle Nichols

He believes, but he does not believe: the impossibility of believing is the impossibility which he accepts most reluctantly, but still it is there with the other impossibilities of this world which is too full of weeping for a child to understand. — Edmund Wilson

You never meant me to be the guy you'd settle down with. Not the safe guy you'd love, but the dangerous one who makes your pulse race. — Renee Rose

One opinion can make a fool out of a once wise person — Will Leamon

I've agreed to do several Star Trek conventions this coming year. — Nichelle Nichols

All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world. — Nichelle Nichols

Some people view Gene as a man with a wild futuristic utopian fantasy, but that's too simple. Star Trek did not promise that people would magically become inherently "better," but that they would progress, always reaching for their highest potential and noblest goals, even if it took centuries of taking two steps forward and one step back. Ideally, humankind would be guided in its quest by reason and justice. The ultimate futility of armed conflict, terrorism, dictatorial rule, prejudice, disregard for the environment, and exercising power for its own sake was demonstrated time and again — Nichelle Nichols

Billie Holiday I never met, but I love her music. — Nichelle Nichols

My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in music was kind of good, because it meant that I had something that was private and personal. — Lorde

I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God I've been able to succeed in my chosen career. — Nichelle Nichols

We are all Gods or Demons- exerting the energy of will to squeeze the anarchic creativity of nature into our own image. — John Constantine

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more. — Horace Mann

The only one who likes change is a wet baby. " Mark Twain — Rod Aries