Nikki Grimes Quotes

• When I think of the Harlem Renaissance, I think of bright colors, and bold, dynamic art. African American artists of the period were, in large measure, breaking out of the constrictions white society had set for them. They were claiming and remaking their own images, and doing so in bold and striking ways.

  Nikki Grimes

  Art, Thinking, Color

  Fuente: www.hbook.com

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• Hay algo en una página en blanco que me hace estremecer.

  Nikki Grimes

  Diaries, Pages, Blank

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

  Nikki Grimes

  Stories, Way, Beast

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• Each of us is tied, in some fashion, to the past. We are all part of a continuum.

  Nikki Grimes

  Fashion, Past, Continuum

  "Five questions for Nikki Grimes". Interview With Horn Book, www.hbook.com. February 6, 2017.

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

  Nikki Grimes

  Heart, Coconuts, Knows

  Nikki Grimes (2003). “Bronx Masquerade”, p.42, Penguin

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• 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

  Artist, Differences, Giving

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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 you? When no one is looking, I check to see if anyone seems as scared as me, or lonely, or shy, or insecure. Is it just me? I'm not so sure. Is your heart an onion too? Show me yours, I'll show you mine we used to say. Your turn. Peel away.

  Nikki Grimes

  Lonely, Wall, Heart

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• I am particularly conscious of my connection to the poets of the Harlem Renaissance because I, too, am a Black poet, born into, and shaped by, the very community in which those poets of the past produced so much of the work we associate with the Harlem Renaissance. We speak from the same place, both literally and metaphorically.

  Nikki Grimes

  Past, Community, Black

  Fuente: www.hbook.com

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