42 Quotes by Jackie Kay

I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless.

My father had a lifelong terror, phobia whatever, about hospitals. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight. He was so scared of doctors, he passed that on to me. That's what parents exist for: to pass their phobias on generation to generation.

The sound of his sleep, the snores and sighs and small noices, is company.

I've started to feel very odd within my own life. It's most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own life.

She walked on and on as though if she walked far enough she might walk this thing out of her. As if by walking long enough, hard enough, she might forget.

Nick Makoha’s Kingdom of Gravity (Peepal Tree Press) is a bold and brilliant poetry debut that does not avert its gaze from trauma and atrocity (exploring along the way the brutal rule of Idi Amin and the civil war) and yet is light on its feet and fills you with hope. The Guardian

Writers give readers courage – the courage to be utterly your complete and complex self.(In reference to Audre Lorde)

They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up, let them go, watch them run.

It's as if my footprints were already on the road before I even got there.I walk into them, my waiting footprints.