in the 2015 documentary about sanchez work, bad sonja sanchez, i love that title.states that her motivation for writing is that she wants to tell people how i became this woman with razor blades between herteeth . she is has honed this lacerating language, weight . she has honed his lacerating language since the late 1950s when she formed the broadside quartet of young poets along with haki madhabuti and nikki giovanni. during her long career of fighting injustice getting with her early days in court, the congress of racial equality sanchez poetry as warned the human cost of oppression in all its forms. in one mournful haiku she writes i see you black boy. toward destruction. watching for death with type eyes. poems such as these are particularly poignant in the era of black lives matter and we owes sonja a great debt for both her ongoing political activism and the gripping and emotional poetry that shehas written . in order to adequately praise sonia sanchez work, i would like to cite her own words. in her poem from a black feminist conference reflections on marga

[applause] and come forward whose brilliant first book is a thunderclap and profit and sister sonja sanchezose voice calls us to dignity please rise and join us. and whose genius help to raise us every year those in the audience please join the winner skip gates on stage for a book signing introduction we have beverages on stage and refreshments in the lobby lastly, let's tune our ears to the young women under the leadership to sing the song they created come too far. let's enjoy. thank you. [applause] >> i went up and there was a whole floor of piano sand or against mother closed up churches just in that county alone and that was just a couple months after my own church closed. being a writer at a narcissist i.c.e. that i should write about this because timeline wise now we near the end of 2015 through the beginning of 2016 and caucuses are starting to happen. the sociological theory of three places. your work, family and for so many the third place was church. what i noticed in my own life i wasn't going to church anymore actively refusing to go like get angry 16 -year-old. i want to have