Quote by Grace Nichols: “I am rooted, but I flow.”

You can be grounded in who you are — in your culture, your history, your identity — while still being fluid, changing, and moving through the world. Rootedness and movement are not opposites. The most stable things are often the most alive.

Nichols published The Fat Black Woman's Poems in 1984, writing from Britain about the Caribbean experience of migration and the politics of the Black female body. She was part of a generation of Black British writers who were transforming the British literary landscape by insisting on their own stories.

Guyanese-British poet who came to international attention with her 1983 debut collection I Is a Long-Memoried Woman, which won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Her work centres Caribbean women's experiences of the Middle Passage, slavery, migration, and belonging. She is one of the foremost Caribbean voices in British literature.