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Nikki Grimes quotes: 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 whole lot more than water.

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 whole lot more than water.

Nikki Grimes quotes: If a dream is in your heart, you never lose it.

If a dream is in your heart, you never lose it.

Nikki Grimes quotes: The day she clips her way out of her cocoon, the only sound she plans to hear is a deafening cheer.

The day she clips her way out of her cocoon, the only sound she plans to hear is a deafening cheer.

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

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

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.

I'm an artist ... The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.

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

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

Nikki Grimes quotes: There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.

There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.

Nikki Grimes quotes: Choose whatever box you like, Mike. Just don't put me in one, son. Believe me, I won't fit.

Choose whatever box you like, Mike. Just don't put me in one, son. Believe me, I won't fit.

Nikki Grimes quotes: 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 packs a punch.

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 packs a punch.

Nikki Grimes quotes: 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.

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.

Nikki Grimes quotes: The crashing sound of years lost shattered in her ears, and new fears emerged from the looking glass. Sometimes I wonder if she'll ever sing again.

The crashing sound of years lost shattered in her ears, and new fears emerged from the looking glass. Sometimes I wonder if she'll ever sing again.

Nikki Grimes quotes: Forget who I really am, who I really want to be.

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

Nikki Grimes quotes: The fact is that you are more comfortable with myth than man.

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

Nikki Grimes quotes: The perfect size is happy" -Garvey

The perfect size is happy" -Garvey

Nikki Grimes quotes: Jealousy is a waste of energy...focus on what I have, not what I don't.

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

Nikki Grimes quotes: You have to take people one at a time, check out what's in their head and heart before you judge.

You have to take people one at a time, check out what's in their head and heart before you judge.

Nikki Grimes quotes: Son, don't mind what's missing. Count allthat's free: friendship, laughter, all thelove your heart can carry, and time -- count time.

Son, don't mind what's missing. Count allthat's free: friendship, laughter, all thelove your heart can carry, and time -- count time.

Nikki Grimes quotes: Do friends make better mirrors?

Do friends make better mirrors?

Nikki Grimes quotes: I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.

I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.

Nikki Grimes quotes: Do something about it, or shut up.

Do something about it, or shut up.

Nikki Grimes quotes: Only the wind shatters the silence. I have been here before choking in solitude.

Only the wind shatters the silence. I have been here before choking in solitude.

Nikki Grimes quotes: At the edge of heartbreak, we both take a leap into the unknown...That's when we see it, a buoy callled friendship.

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

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