Sapphire (author)

thumb| Ramona Lofton (born August 4, 1950) better known by her pen name Sapphire, is an American author and performance poet. Quotes the farmer takes Jill down the well& all the king's horses& all the king's mencan't put that baby together againcrooked mancrooked manpumpkin eaterchildhood stealer. "Mickey Mouse Was a Scorpio". American Dreams (New York: Vintage, 1996) p. 24 [Originally published: New York: High Risk Books/Serpent's Tail, 1994] death is wherejimi hendrix is,where our revolutionended up. "where jimi is". American Dreams (1996) p. 103 There has always been something wrong wif the tesses. The tesses paint a picture of me wif no brain. The tesses paint a picture of me an' my muver—my whole family, we more than dumb, we invisible. Push (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996) p. 30 "I'm tired," I says. She says, "I know you are, but you can't stop now Precious, you gotta push." And I do. Push (1996) p. 97 External links Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Poets from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States Category:African Americans Category:LGBT people Category:Authors from California Category:1950 births Category:Women born in the 1950s Category:Living people