Nikki Grimes Quotes

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

Nikki Grimes

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• What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Choices

• Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Power
  • Generation

• We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Friends

• You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Think
  • Films

• I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • People
  • Giving
  • Advice

• I do not believe that people want to work hard enough and they want to find the quick Twitter, SEO. Anybody who's obsessed with SEO has lost already, period. I believe that firmly.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I've been really privileged to work for two presidents - President Obama and President Clinton - who are both people of faith, who value faith, and who respect that others have the same feelings in their own lives.

  

  Jack Lew
  • People
  • Work
  • Faith

• For 8 years now I've been addicted to cold turkey. When I tell people I'm quitting cold turkey, they say,'What are you quitting?', I'm fucking quitting cold turkey.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Cold

• … let's all remember that we have a government 'of the people, for the people, and by the people', and there are very few people in our government that you can't buy.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Remember

• I think it's really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible - and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so it's good to see people in the media representing all of those things.

  

  Kerry Bishe
  • People
  • Good
  • Women

• When it comes to the stage, I can't help but be inspired by people like George Clinton, Elton John and Alice Cooper.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • People
  • Help
  • Inspired

• 'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed.

  

  Allan Gurganus
  • World
  • Heart
  • Book

• Changing people's preconceptions is something you have to do in order to search for truth. Of course normally, that's not done because it also challenges social stability, and stories, as a result, are often told much more simply.

  

  Jiang Wen
  • People
  • Done
  • Truth

• It bothers me that people who should know better believe a glossy magazine fantasy.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • People
  • Believe

• I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • People
  • Up
  • Clouds

• People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.

  

  Julia Carin Cavazos
  • People

• At the end of the day, I know that I make my living by dressing up, fooling around, playing pranks and giving people a good time. I am enjoying the ride.

  

  Cyrus Broacha
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I wanted to write the stories that were not in my childhood, to represent people who hadn't historically been represented in literature.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but like Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dillon was recorded there. A lot of great records; R&B records, jazz records. It's a lot of great players and great studios.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • People
  • Players
  • Country Music

• If I can put on my album in a car or on my headphones and listen to the whole thing and love it, that's what I'm going to be happy putting out there.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Happy
  • Thing
  • Listen

• Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

  

  Phyllis Diller
  • Children
  • Home
  • Nice

• Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'

  

  Eric Liu
  • World
  • Power
  • America

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

  

  Nikki Grimes
  • People
  • Heart
  • Judge