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Ordinary Hazards QUOTES

Ordinary Hazards QUOTES

1 " Trauma is a memory hog,
It gobbles up all available space
in the brain,
leaves little room to mark
daily happenstances,
or even routine injuries
which are less than
life-threatening. "

― Nikki Grimes , Ordinary Hazards

2 " MY BLACK ME

My father fed me
Invisible Man,
Native Son,
No Longer at Ease,
Black Man's Burden,
and the more I read,
the madder I got,
and I already
had reason
to scream,
but my father
kept me dreaming
of what words
I might bring
to the world. "

― Nikki Grimes , Ordinary Hazards

3 " I didn't have much in the world, but my fears were my own. "

― Nikki Grimes , Ordinary Hazards

4 " this writing thing
was some kind of magic trick
I didn't yet understand,
except for this:
Magicians rarely share
their secrets. "

― Nikki Grimes , Ordinary Hazards