Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.

- Nikky Finney

The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.

- Nikky Finney

My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.

- Nikky Finney

In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of the human being, naked and facing the natura…

- Nikky Finney

I remember saying to myself those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they will truly be heard…

- Nikky Finney