Is there a Sonia Sanchez poem about the N word and what is it called (and if not her who wrote it)?

Question

I'm pretty sure it was Sonia Sanchez, but I could be wrong and I don't recall the name of the poem.

It may be Nikki Giovanni, but it isn't that one. The one I am thinking of is about the word itself and the speaker in the poem says the word over and over again as to take power away from the word.

Answer 1

It was Sonia Sanchez, although I cannot find the actual text of the poem on line. I think it is in her book "Homecoming," but I lost the link that gave me that idea too.
The title of the poem is just that "N....."

Sorry I can't help more

Sonia Sanchez is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, including Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems (Beacon Press, 1999); Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums: Love Poems (1998); Does Your House Have Lions? (1995), which was nominated for both the NAACP Image and National Book Critics Circle Award; Wounded in the House of a Friend (1995); Under a Soprano Sky (1987); Homegirls & Handgrenades (1984), which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation; I've Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems (1978); A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women (1973); Love Poems (1973); Liberation Poem (1970); We a BaddDDD People (1970); and Homecoming (1969).

Answer 2

Nikki Giovanni wrote something called "****** Can You Kill"