Rosario Morales
(1930-2011)
Puerto Rican writer and poet
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Rosario Morales (August 23, 1930 – March 23, 2011) was a Puerto Rican author and poet. She is best known for her book Getting Home Alive which she co-authored with her daughter Aurora Levins Morales in 1986. She was also significant within the Latina feminist movement and the Communist Party. She describes her own complicated identity in her poem "I am what I am", “I am Puerto Rican I am U.S. American… I am Boricua as Boricuas come… I am naturalized Jewish American… I am what I am. Take it or leave me alone."
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1 August 1930 New York City, New York
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| Died |
23 March 2011 (aged 80)
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| Zodiac | Leo |
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