Nichelle Nichols Quotes

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 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.

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.

Space travel benefits us here on Earth. And we ain't stopped yet. There's more exploration to come.

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

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.

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

Billie Holiday I never met, but I love her music.

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

Charlie X”)? Those were the hints, as far as I’m concerned.