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title: "3 Grace Nichols Quotes"
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# Grace Nichols

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Grace Nichols is a Guyanese poet who moved to Britain in 1977, before which she worked as a teacher and journalist in Guyana. Her first collection, I is a Long-Memoried Woman (1983), won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. In December 2021, she was announced as winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

##  Quotes by Grace Nichols

> [“I have crossed an ocean I have lost my tongue from the root of the old one a new one has sprung”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-nichols/i-have-crossed-an-ocean-i-have-lost-my-tongue-from-the-root-of-the/)

[Grace Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-nichols/)

[Ocean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ocean/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f15/grace-nichols-87878_ocean_i-have-crossed-an-ocean-i-have-lost-my-t_1316737.jpg)

> [“whatever tongue we speak the old ghost asserts itself in dusky echoes”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-nichols/whatever-tongue-we-speak-the-old-ghost-asserts-itself-in-dusky-echoes/)

[Grace Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-nichols/)

[Ghost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ghost/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ac/grace-nichols-87878_quote_whatever-tongue-we-speak-the-old-ghost-a_1379246.jpg)

> [“Not every skin-teeth is a smile 'Massa' if you see me smiling when you pass if you see me bending when you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-nichols/not-every-skin-teeth-is-a-smile-massa-if-you-see-me-smiling-when-you/)

[Grace Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-nichols/)

[Smile](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/smile/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c5/grace-nichols-87878_quote_not-every-skin-teeth-is-a-smile-massa-if_2023982.jpg)

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