It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.
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.