“It is hard to stop loving the ocean, even after it has left you gasping.” — Sarah Kay Gasping Copy Share Image
“My world was the size of a crayon box, and it took every colour to draw her” — Sarah Kay Colour Copy Share Image
I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both. — Sarah Kay Best Copy Share Image
I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live. — Sarah Kay Humans Copy Share Image
“Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent.” — Sarah Kay Perfect practice Copy Share Image
One of my highest priorities as an educator is to be as inclusive as possible. — Sarah Kay Educator Copy Share Image
“What is it about immortality? With the right sword and shield, we think we can fend off anger, fear, and hatred. If… — Sarah Kay Death Copy Share Image
“He will never marry her, the translator tells me, after we have been driving in the dark for a few minutes. Yes,… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the… — Sarah Kay Consistent Copy Share Image
I do like celebrating women, I do like celebrating different lifestyles and choices and people and it makes me happy when others… — Sarah Kay Celebrate Copy Share Image
You can be an artist, work hard for your work and also share while trying to create community with other artists. — Sarah Kay Art Copy Share Image
The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed… — Sarah Kay Firsts Copy Share Image
“There was no secret I did not tell him, there was no moment we did not share. We didn't grow up, we… — Sarah Kay Secret Copy Share Image
I have always been more comfortable with daredevil acts than with the everyday nuances of life. Let me jump out of a… — Sarah Kay Across Copy Share Image
“She makes tea by hand. Nettles, slippery elm, turmeric, cinnamon - my mother is a recipe for warm throats and belly laughs.… — Sarah Kay Mother Copy Share Image
Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards… — Sarah Kay Ends Copy Share Image
At this point in my life - age 24 - I have chosen a fairly strange path that not many are walking.… — Sarah Kay Age Copy Share Image
I don't think it's about art being a career but it's about making sure that if art is something that you love,… — Sarah Kay Amount Copy Share Image
I write poetry to figure things out. It's what I use as a navigating tool in my life, so when there's something… — Sarah Kay About family Copy Share Image
Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit… — Sarah Kay About Copy Share Image
“In New York, when a tree dies, nobody mourns that it was cut down in its prime. Nobody counts the rings, notifies… — Sarah Kay Loved ones Copy Share Image
Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it…I personally know so… — Sarah Kay Art Copy Share Image
“If you grow up the type of woman men want to hold, You can let them hold you. All day they practice… — Sarah Kay Question mark Copy Share Image
“But I have seen the best of you and the worst of you, and I choose both. I want to share every… — Sarah Kay Hold my hand Copy Share Image
My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were… — Sarah Kay Adults Copy Share Image
They'll be days like this" my momma said. When you open your hands to catch, and wind up with only blisters and… — Sarah Kay Blisters Copy Share Image
I think that poetry is an act of celebration, that anytime you're writing a poem, it means that you're celebrating something, even… — Sarah Kay Angry Copy Share Image
“And the spaces that he never saw: the ones my parents had labeled private parts when I was still small enough to… — Sarah Kay Intimacy Copy Share Image
“The Type Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else. -Richard Siken If you grow up the type of… — Sarah Kay Another woman Copy Share Image
“When they bombed Hiroshima, the explosion formed a mini-supernova, so every living animal, human or plant that received direct contact with the… — Sarah Kay Change the world Copy Share Image
“Sure, I know where most things are but give me enough time and I can lose anything.” — Sarah Kay Enough time Copy Share Image
“There is a girl who still writes you; she doesn’t know how not to.” — Sarah Kay Girl Copy Share Image
If I should have a daughter, instead of Mom, she’s gonna call me Point B, because that way she knows that no… — Sarah Kay Call me Copy Share Image
This world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don’t be afraid to stick your tongue out and… — Sarah Kay Made Copy Share Image
Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our… — Sarah Kay Define Copy Share Image
I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at… — Sarah Kay Boat Copy Share Image
Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share… — Sarah Kay Common Copy Share Image
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