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What Do You Find Interesting About The Work Of Grace Nichols? Grace Nichols was born in Guyana in 1950. She lived there until 1977 when she came to live with her partner, another poet. She writes many poems and anthologies. Her poems are mainly about black people and their sense of culture. She writes about the pride they have to be themselves and not to feel embarrassed about who they are. She has also written poetry about missing her home and about what it feels like to be away. I have chosen to study four poems by Grace Nichols: these are, 'Beauty,' 'The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping,' 'Like A Beacon' and 'Island Man.' These four poems all explore different aspects of cultural diversity. 'Beauty' is about Nichols' own views of beauty and not listening to the stereotypical ideas that are impounded into everybody's minds. Nichols doesn't mean beauty in the sense...

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