Nikki Grimes Quotes
- I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.
- Look around. Take the tour. Fear hangs on the wall and shame sometimes. Emotional dislocation too. But I am brave in my admission. Are you?…
- For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know.
- There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.
- It seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place. But they could.
- In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the existence…
- Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised.