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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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.
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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.
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I haven't acquired a taste for green tea, and I don't intend to. I like my coffee black with a little sugar, and it keeps my metabolism up! I don't mind the occasional Gatorade while I'm gymming.
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God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo.
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The reality is if you take any three people and look at their cellphones or blackberries and facebook pages, you can get to almost everywhere in the country, because we're networked together in a way that is incredibly powerful.
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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.
