Quotes from Nikki Grimes

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

How good is different? I search stories for someone who resembles me. If it weren't for books and Joe, "different" would just be lonely.

Why let Angela call me something that I'm not? Or let her tease me? Bad enough the kids at school kick my heart around

I do like Manny, crank up the inside volume, listen to my dreams as I walk through the school halls, I choose what words to let in.

this writing thing was some kind of magic trick I didn't yet understand, except for this: Magicians rarely share their secrets.

The lack of goodness in the young gun's heart was oxygen to the fire, and so he burned for a good long while before I woke. The dream stoked my faith in the judgment and justice that will come someday or this afternoon soon. I turn up the collar of my white robe, relieved to know that God's got me covered 'cause I'm good, but not that good.

Ready or not, I peer into your soul and dive deep... Your eyes don't like what I see. You don't want to be me. So you curse and smash the mirror which gets you what? A bit of blood , a handful of glass splinters, another source of pain.