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

• 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

• I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.

  

  Wiz Khalifa
  • People

• That's what people forget about, is that when things are very, very powerful in a sad way, they have that possibility of also being over-the-top, hysterically funny.

  

  Joel Grey
  • People
  • Funny
  • Powerful

• We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.

  

  Bob Schieffer
  • People
  • Different
  • Job

• I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

  

  Mattie Stepanek
  • People
  • Thoughts

• My memories of London Fashion Week are of starting out and not getting many tickets for fashion shows, but wanting to see them so much that I'd sneak in with my friends, people like Pat McGrath and Craig McDean.

  

  Edward Enninful
  • People
  • Friends
  • Fashion

• We probably seem to be anti-religious...none of us believes in God.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • God
  • Religious

• What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Success
  • Control
  • Cold

• It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Different
  • Single
  • Present

• 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