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Sonia Sanchez By: Jake Woods
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Highlights of Life Born in Birmingham, Alabama on September 9, 1934. Hunter College Married Poetry Multiple Awards
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Homecoming i have been a way so long once after college i returned tourist style to watch all the niggers killing themselves with 3 for ones with needles that cd not support Their Stutters. now woman I have returned Leaving behind me All those hide and Seek faces peeling With Freudian dreams. This is for real. black niggers my beauty. Baby. I have learned it Ain’t like they say In the newspapers.
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Summer Words of a Sistuh Addict the first day i shot dope was on a Sunday. i had just come home from church got mad at my motha cuz she got mad at me. u dig? went out. shot up behind a feelen gainst her. it felt good. gooder than dooing it. yeah. it was nice. i did it. uh. huh. i did it. uh. huh. i want to do it again, it felt so gooooood. and as the sistuh sits in her silent/ remembered/high someone leans for ward gently asks her: sistuh. did u finally learn how to hold yo/mother? and the music of the day drifts in the room to mingle with the sistuh’s young tears. and we all sing.
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Achievements Awards: 1984, Lucretia Mott Award 1985, Outstanding Arts Award from the Pennsylvania Coalition of 100 Black Women 1985, Community Service Award from the National Black Caucus of State Legislators 1985, American Book Award for Homegirls and Handgrenades 1988, Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Humanities 1989, Peace and Freedom Award from Women International League for Peace and Freedom (W.I.L.P.F.) 1992–1993, PEW Fellowship in the Arts 1999, recipient of Langston Hughes Poetry Award 2001, Robert Frost Medal Written Work: Plays: Black Cats and Uneasy Landings I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't Sista Son/Ji Uh Huh, But How Do It Free Us? Malcolm Man/Don't Live Here No More Short Story (Collections): A Sound Investment and Other Stories Children's Books: It's a New Day A Sound Investment The Adventures of Fat Head, Small Head, and Square Head Poetry: Homecoming We a Baddddd People (1970) Love Poems A Blues Book for a Blue Black Magic Woman Autumn Blues
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Works Cited “Sonia Sanchez.” (n.d.). Retrieved December 4, 2015, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sanchez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sanchez "Sonia Sanchez." Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, n.d. Web. 02 Dec. 2015. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/sonia-sanchezhttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/sonia-sanchez Perspectives on African American Lit. (n.d.). Retrieved December 4, 2015, from http://perspectivesonafricanamericanlit.blogspot.com/2010/07/homecomi ng-by-sonia-sanchez.html http://perspectivesonafricanamericanlit.blogspot.com/2010/07/homecomi ng-by-sonia-sanchez.html
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