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

- 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.

- Nikki Grimes

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

- 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 you? When no o…

- Nikki Grimes

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 ve…

- Nikki Grimes

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

- Nikki Grimes

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 measur…

- Nikki Grimes

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

- Nikki Grimes