We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.
Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
-- Nikki Giovanni, (Jun 7 1943-____), US author, poet; The Princess of Black Poetry wrote My House, 1972 and The Women and the Men, 1975.