Nikki Grimes Quotes
You have to take people one at a time, check out what's in their head and heart before you judge.
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
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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.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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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.
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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.
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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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… 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.
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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.
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When it comes to the stage, I can't help but be inspired by people like George Clinton, Elton John and Alice Cooper.
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'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.
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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.
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It bothers me that people who should know better believe a glossy magazine fantasy.
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I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.
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People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.
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People who pigeonhole us for our queerness are not people I'm interested in knowing. They're so boring. How dare you be so boring? Grow up. Get some Ray-Bans.
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The creation of the UCB Theatre is by far my proudest professional accomplishment.
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Work hard, be honest, help people, never give up, love your fellow man and woman, give back to society, and don't ever discriminate.
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I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.
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I was a high school throw-out.
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You have to take people one at a time, check out what's in their head and heart before you judge.
