Quote by Nikki Grimes

“Do something about it, or shut up.”

— Nikki Grimes

Look around. Take the tour. Fear hangs on the wall and shame sometimes. Emotional dislocation too. But I am brave in my admission. Are…

— Nikki Grimes

Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. That's just the nature of the beast.

— Nikki Grimes

“Jealousy is a waste of energy...focus on what I have, not what I don't.”

— Nikki Grimes

“The foster home they were leaving was no place to be. The mother, Mrs. Boone, slapped Paris around every time her real daughter did…

— Nikki Grimes

“The fact is that you are more comfortable with myth than man.”

— Nikki Grimes

“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 love that…

— Nikki Grimes

“Forget who I really am, who I really want to be.”

— Nikki Grimes

For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know.

— Nikki Grimes

“So don't tell me that I can't fit in. My heart beats like a talking drum.”

— Nikki Grimes

In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the…

— Nikki Grimes

“You laugh, rap my woody shell with wicked whispers shaped like knuckles, then toss me aside. Lucky for me, I don't bruise easily. Besides,…

— Nikki Grimes