Tato Laviera
Jesús Abraham "Tato" Laviera was a Puerto Rican poet in the United States. Born Jesús Laviera Sanches, in Santurce, Puerto Rico, he moved to New York City at the age of ten, with his family, to reside on the Lower East Side. Throughout his life he was involved in various human rights organizations, but was best known as a renowned Nuyorican poet.
Background
- Born in
- Santurce
- Educated at
- Cornell UniversityBrooklyn College
- Awards
- 🏆 American Book Awards
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"In the Lower East Side, the Puerto Ricans had already been ‘project-ed.’ The people were used to living in the projects. They worked on ships on South Street or in hotels. There were a lot of people c…"
Works & Publications
No works or publications documented yet.
Timeline
1950
Born
Birth2013
Died
Death
Influenced By
Thinkers whose ideas shaped Tato's philosophy
No known influences documented.
Influenced
Thinkers whose work was shaped by Tato's ideas
No influenced thinkers documented yet.
Source Attribution
Information about Tato Laviera is sourced from curated knowledge bases and cross-referenced for accuracy. Influence relationships are scored by thematic overlap and historical plausibility.
Related Thinkers
See all →
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"977. Beware of no Man more than thy self."
— Thomas Fuller (writer)"The central problem, so it seemed, was to learn from whose eye he looked forth. Much, after all, would depe…"
— Jack Vance"Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to bu…"
— Subhas Chandra Bose"The prose method might be described as that where the writer provides a complete description of all those m…"
— Stephen Spender"Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our …"
— John Steinbeck"With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable."
— Harper Lee
