"this country might have been a pio neer land once. but. there ain't no mo indians blowing custer's mind with a different image of america."
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Poets from the United StatesWomen authors from the United StatesPeople from AlabamaAfrican Americans
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"Right on: white america", WE A baddDDD PEOPLE (Broadside Press, 1973). Anthologized in Geoffrey Moore (ed.) The Penguin Book of American Verse (1977) p. 590
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Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez (born Wilsonia Benita Driver; September 9, 1934) is an American poet, writer, and professor. She was a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement and has written more than a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children's books.
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