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Sonia Sanchez

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Birmingham, Alabama, The United States


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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: 4.29 · 993 ratings · 107 reviews · 33 distinct works
Shake Loose My Skin: New an...
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions
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Homegirls and Handgrenades
4.55 of 5 stars 4.55 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1984 — 3 editions
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4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
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Does Your House Have Lions ?
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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Wounded in the House of a F...
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions
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I've Been a Woman: New and ...
4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions
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Morning Haiku
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
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Under a Soprano Sky
4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1987
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We a Baddddd People.
4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1982
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Love Poems
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1975
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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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