Quote of the day
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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)