Nichelle Nichols Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gene and I have a conversation (about the show's emphasis on racial equality), and then he talks to the producer, and it is in that scene where he tells him it probably won't be in this century.

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

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.

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.