Nikki Grimes quote

In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the existence of the problems I faced as a black foster child from a dysfunctional and badly broken home.
Nikki Grimes
Nikki Grimes
Nikki Grimes
Born: Oct 20, 1950

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Home, Me, Broken, Problems, Black, Mirror, Few, Sense, Too, Gave, Back, Faced, Betrayed, Badly, Spoke, Read, Still, Existence, Child, Fewer, Stories, Acknowledged, Dysfunctional, Foster, Image

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