Beast Quote by Nikki Grimes

“Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. Thats just the nature of the beast.”

Nikki Grimes

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“Do something about it, or shut up.”

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

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

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

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

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

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“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…

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

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

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

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

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“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,…

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