Sonja Sohn Quotes

• This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry – which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.

  Sonja Sohn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Moving, Delivery

• My own perception of cops was that they came into your neighborhood, they roughed up people that you loved for no reason and took them away. As a child you saw that.

  Sonja Sohn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cops, Perception

• I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I’d go home and my home life was so miserable that it just felt like I was doing everything that I was supposed to do. I did all my chores, made really good grades, and I was excelling at school, but I wasn’t happy.

  Sonja Sohn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Miserable, Turmoil

• I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I’m supposed to go in a direction, I’m fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I’m all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30.

  Sonja Sohn

  Topics in College

  Tags in Direction, Committed

• I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.

  Sonja Sohn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Internal, Pursuing

• I loved to write; in my late teens I had a ‘zine. But it wasn’t until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent.

  Sonja Sohn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Teens, Talent

• Even though the neighborhood I grew up in had some unhealthy elements, there was a caring there where you knew that you didn’t want to get caught doing something wrong. There were bright spots in the neighborhood where I felt nurtured on a community level.

  Sonja Sohn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Caring, Caught

• To call the police is a really big deal because you don’t snitch – that’s the culture you grow up in.

  Sonja Sohn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Grow Up, Police

Sonja Sohn (8)

Birth:	1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Actress, Screenwriter

About

Sonja Sohn is an American actress and community activist. She is best known for her role as Detective Kima Greggs on the HBO drama The Wire, and as Detective Samantha Baker on the ABC series Body of Proof. She is also known for having starred in the independent film Slam, which she also co-wrote. Her role on The Wire has led to her current work as the leader of the Baltimore community initiative ReWired for Change.

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