An Art of Excellence by Sarah Kay
SARAH KAY is a New Yorker, a
poetry writer and reader, a spoken word poetry teacher. A performing poet since she was 14 years old,
Sarah Kay is the founder of Project VOICE, an organization that uses spoken
word poetry as a literacy and empowerment tool.
"If I should have a
daughter, instead of Mom, she's gonna call me Point B ... " began spoken
word poet Sarah Kay, in a talk that inspired two standing ovations at TED2011.
She tells the story of her metamorphosis — from a wide-eyed teenager soaking in
verse at New York's Bowery Poetry Club to a teacher connecting kids with the
power of self-expression through Project V.O.I.C.E. — and gives two
breathtaking performances of "B" and "Hiroshima."
Her Famous Quotes:
“I want [my daughter] to look
at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a
microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.”
“When you open your hands to
catch and wind up with only blisters and bruises; when you step out
of the phone booth and try to fly and the very people you want to save are
the ones standing on your cape; when your boots will fill with rain, and
you'll be up to your knees in disappointment. And those are the very days
you have all the more reason to say thank you. Because there's nothing
more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the
shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.”
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This talk was presented at an
official TED conference.
Posted by
R. Edin Brow
Assistant Professor of English
Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering
The body language and the pronunciation of Sarah Kay is way above that of a usual person. I just love the way in which she engages the audience. Wish we could invite her to our college for a talk.
ReplyDeleteIts really a wonderful quotes from Sarah. It applies to modern materialistic days of 21 century where you need to do keep on help others whether they neglect or accept you or whether they like you because you are doing good for them. Its nothing more than what Krishna told in Bhagavat Gita! Do things without expectations!.
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