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Nikki Grimes Quotes

It seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place. But they could.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: October 20, 1950

Topics

Power Time Words Me Place Page

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

Music Beautiful Ugly Kind Something

Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.

Mathematics Simple Problems Year You

Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense.

Love Passion Football Me Nothing Up

I'm sometimes willing to put in vast, even inordinate amounts of time if I find a project that interests me.

Time Me Find Sometimes Project Even

My way towards God has been to write music.

Music God Way Write Been Towards

When you use God as an excuse to hate people and you use God as an excuse to cut people down, first of all, I think it's insulting to God.

God Hate People Think You Down

I'm glad people get excited watching me play. Hopefully I show them something new each time I step on the court.

Time Step People Me Play New

My parents, fleeing a repressive regime in the Dominican Republic, were embraced by this country and taught us to love it in return. After my father served proudly in the U.S. Army, they settled in Buffalo, N.Y., and were able to live the American Dream.

Love Father Live American Dream Army

Conan O'Brien's the best. I'm glad he's in L.A. because I want to move in with him. I was a guest on that show one time to promote 'Human Giant,' and he was the coolest, funniest guy. I was really impressed. He's also eight feet tall and can shoot lightning from his fingertips.

Time Best Feet Want Tall Human

I think in any father-son relationship, there's going to be times you say, 'Well, the apple didn't fall far from the tree.'

Michael Raymond-James

Relationship Tree Think You Apple

I grew up in Westlake Villiage, a suburb of L.A. There was a guy there who was a fighter and was like, 'I'll teach you to box.' I started a little bit of boxing, then it crossed over into jiu-jitsu. I was into it for a little while, but then I started doing basketball, baseball, team sports.

Jonathan Lipnicki

Sports Baseball Team Basketball You

To sail successfully, you need to observe with great care. You need to identify what the wind and the water are telling you and then find a way to execute, to reach whatever goal you've set, be that simply making it home or winning a race.

Home Great Water Sail Wind Winning

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