Romona Lofton was born on August 4, 1950 and is better known by her pen name Sapphire. She is an American author and performance poet. Sapphire lives in New York City. She is openly bisexual. Like her character Precious, Sapphire herself was sexually abused; in her case which was by her own father, a US army sergeant, at the age of eight. She also became a member of a gay organization named United Lesbians of Color for Change Inc. Lofton took the name "Sapphire" because of its one-time cultural association with the image of a "belligerent black woman," and also because she said she could more easily picture that name on a book cover than her birth name.
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