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Sonia Sanchez


Born
in Birmingham, Alabama, The United States
September 09, 1934


Sonia Sanchez was born Wilsonia Benita Driver on September 9, 1934, in Birmingham, Alabama. After her mother died in childbirth a year later, Sanchez lived with her paternal grandmother and other relatives for several years. In 1943, she moved to Harlem with her sister to live with their father and his third wife.

She earned a B.A. in political science from Hunter College in 1955. She also did postgraduate work at New York University and studied poetry with Louise Bogan. Sanchez formed a writers' workshop in Greenwich Village, attended by such poets as Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), and Larry Neal. Along with Madhubuti, Nikki Giovanni, and Etheridge Knight, she formed the "Broadside Quartet" of young poets, intr ...more

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Average rating: 4.17 · 12,131 ratings · 1,962 reviews · 121 distinct works • Similar authors
Shake Loose My Skin: New an...
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Homegirls and Handgrenades
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Does Your House Have Lions ?
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Morning Haiku
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Wounded in the House of a F...
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I've Been a Woman: New and ...
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Collected Poems
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Under a Soprano Sky
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We a BaddDDD People.
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“Come windless invader
I am a carnival of
Stars, a poem of blood.”
― Sonia Sanchez
tags: haiku, poetry
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“No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heaven, it'll come. Just don't never give up on love.”
― Sonia Sanchez, Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
tags: come, heaven, love, never, wait
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“I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the clearer my view of the world becomes.”
― Sonia Sanchez
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