Quote of the day
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
Grace Nichols
Born: January 18, 1950 (age 74)
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)