Look around. Take the tour. Fear hangs on the wall and shame sometimes. Emotional dislocation too. But I am brave in my… — Nikki Grimes Admission Copy Share Image
Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. That's just the nature of the beast. — Nikki Grimes About Copy Share Image
“Jealousy is a waste of energy...focus on what I have, not what I don't.” — Nikki Grimes Energy Copy Share Image
“The foster home they were leaving was no place to be. The mother, Mrs. Boone, slapped Paris around every time her real… — Nikki Grimes Award-winning-author Copy Share Image
“The fact is that you are more comfortable with myth than man.” — Nikki Grimes Storytelling Copy Share Image
“He'll never do it again,' she swears, but he will because she'll let him. Now me? I've got no use for imitation… — Nikki Grimes Love Copy Share Image
For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know. — Nikki Grimes Coconuts Copy Share Image
“So don't tell me that I can't fit in. My heart beats like a talking drum.” — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or… — Nikki Grimes Acknowledged Copy Share Image
“You laugh, rap my woody shell with wicked whispers shaped like knuckles, then toss me aside. Lucky for me, I don't bruise… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. Thats just the nature of the beast. — Nikki Grimes Beast Copy Share Image
“At the edge of heartbreak, we both take a leap into the unknown...That's when we see it, a buoy callled friendship.” — Nikki Grimes Friendship Copy Share Image
I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my… — Nikki Grimes After Copy Share Image
“I'd pretend their words were water and let them roll off my back. Now, I'm nobody's duck, and their words stung a… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
“Only the wind shatters the silence. I have been here before choking in solitude.” — Nikki Grimes Silence Copy Share Image
In 'Out of the Dark,' I'm talking about my own life. I'm not talking as a character or speaking as a character.… — Nikki Grimes About Copy Share Image
“Love is not me being who you want. Your definition is a whirlpool trying to suck me in and I'm drowning. Don't… — Nikki Grimes Love Copy Share Image
I am particularly conscious of my connection to the poets of the Harlem Renaissance because I, too, am a Black poet, born… — Nikki Grimes Associates Copy Share Image
“Ready or not, I peer into your soul and dive deep... Your eyes don't like what I see. You don't want to… — Nikki Grimes Pain Copy Share Image
Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny… — Nikki Grimes Adult Copy Share Image
It seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place.… — Nikki Grimes Across Copy Share Image
