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Nikki Grimes
American
Author
Born:
Oct 20
,
1950
Along
Another
Books
Library
Life
Me
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Joyce Meyer
Mark Twain
Og Mandino
Zig Ziglar
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
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
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.
Nikki Grimes
Time
Me
Words
Power
Seemed
Could
Had
Another
Another Time
Spread
Just
Place
Across
Page
Transport
In 'Out of the Dark,' I'm talking about my own life. I'm not talking as a character or speaking as a character. I was not as free as when I write fiction.
Nikki Grimes
Life
Character
Dark
Free
Own
Not Talking
Out
About
My Own
Write
Talking
Fiction
Speaking
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