Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Grace Nichols

Born: January 18, 1950 (age 75)
Bio: Grace Nichols is a Guyanese poet, who moved to Britain in 1977. Her first collection, I is a Long-Memoried Woman, won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.
Known for:
- The fat black woman's poems (1984)
- I is a long memoried woman (1983)
- Whole of a morning sky (1986)
- Startling the flying fish (2005)