Editing Jean-Michel Basquiat (section)

===Early life: 1960–1977===
Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960, in [[Park Slope]], [[Brooklyn]], New York City, the second of four children to Matilde Basquiat (née Andrades, 1934–2008) and Gérard Basquiat (1930–2013).<ref name="Bosworth-1998 " /> He had an older brother, Max, who died shortly before Jean-Michel's birth, and two younger sisters, Lisane (b. 1964) and Jeanine (b. 1967).<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Sowa|first1=Emily|last2=Hershkowitz|first2=Toby|date=February 27, 2019|title=Jean-Michel Basquiat's sisters talk growing up with the Brooklyn-born art icon|url=https://abc7ny.com/5145785/|access-date=April 4, 2021|website=ABC7 New York|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora |first=Jana Evans |last=Braziel |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] |location=Bloomington, Indiana |year=2008 |page=174 |isbn=978-0-253-35139-5}}</ref> His father was born in [[Port-au-Prince]], Haiti, and his mother was born in Brooklyn to Puerto Rican parents.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Guerrero|first=Naiomy|date=June 16, 2017|title=Basquiat's Record Sale Highlights the Invisibility of the Latinx Market|url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-americas-expensive-artist-latinx-one|access-date=April 4, 2021|website=Artsy|language=en|archive-date=May 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513043631/https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-americas-expensive-artist-latinx-one|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was raised [[Catholic Church|Catholic]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=March 3, 2021|title=Art, Friendship, and An Awakening|work=Carnegie Magazine|url=https://carnegiemuseums.org/carnegie-magazine/spring-2021/art-friendship-and-an-awakening/|access-date=June 8, 2021|publisher=Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh|location=New York City|language=en-US}}</ref>

Matilde instilled a love for art in her young son by taking him to local art museums and enrolling him as a junior member of the [[Brooklyn Museum|Brooklyn Museum of Art]].<ref name="Bosworth-1998">{{Cite news|last=Bosworth|first=Patricia|date=August 9, 1998|title=Hyped to Death|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/09/books/hyped-to-death.html|access-date=April 4, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}{{subscription required}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Pogrebin|first=Robin|date=January 11, 2018|title=Basquiat Skull Painting Is Coming to the Brooklyn Museum|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/arts/basquiat-skull-painting-is-coming-to-the-brooklyn-museum.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220103/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/arts/basquiat-skull-painting-is-coming-to-the-brooklyn-museum.html |archive-date=January 3, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=April 4, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}{{cbignore}}{{subscription required}}</ref> Basquiat was a precocious child who learned to read and write by the age of four.<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 15, 2016|title=The Ultimate Guide To Jean-Michel Basquiat|url=https://www.sleek-mag.com/article/ultimate-guide-jean-michel-basquiat/|access-date=April 4, 2021|website=Sleek|language=en}}</ref> His mother encouraged her son's artistic talent and he often tried to draw his favorite cartoons.<ref name="Jegede-2009">{{Cite book|last=jegede|first=dele|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dWdFCQAAQBAJ&dq=matilde+basquiat+brooklyn+puerto+rican&pg=PA17|title=Encyclopedia of African American Artists|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]]|location=Santa Barbara, California|year=2009|isbn=978-0-313-08060-9|pages=17–18|language=en}}</ref> In 1967, he started attending [[Saint Ann's School (Brooklyn)|Saint Ann's School]], a private school.<ref name="Gotthardt-2017" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Curtis|first=Lisa J.|date=April 15, 2005|title=Homecoming|url=https://www.brooklynpaper.com/homecoming/|access-date=April 4, 2021|website=Brooklyn Paper|language=en-US}}</ref> There he met his friend Marc Prozzo and together they created a children's book, written by Basquiat at the age of seven and illustrated by Prozzo.<ref name="Jegede-2009" /><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Basquiat|first1=Jean-Michel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K5JIAQAAIAAJ&q=Marc+Prozzo+basquiat|title=Basquiat. Fantasmi da scacciare. Ediz. bilingue|last2=Berggruen|first2=Olivier|date=2008|publisher=Skira|isbn=978-88-6130-946-3|pages=142|language=it}}</ref>

In 1968, at the age of seven, Basquiat was hit by a car while playing in the street.{{Sfn|Saggese|2021|p=5}} His arm was broken and he suffered several internal injuries, which required a [[splenectomy]].<ref name="Emmerling-2003">{{cite book|last=Emmerling|first=Leonard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ildOSz1bKuMC|title=Jean-Michel Basquiat: 1960–1988|publisher=Taschen|year=2003|isbn=3-8228-1637-X|location=|page=11}}</ref> While he was hospitalized, his mother brought him a copy of ''[[Gray's Anatomy]]'' to keep him occupied.<ref name="Hoban1988">{{citation|last=Hoban|first=Phoebe|title=SAMO Is Dead: The Fall of Jean Michel Basquiat|date=September 26, 1988|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7uQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA36|work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|volume=21|issue=38|pages=36–44|issn=0028-7369|mode=cs1}}</ref> After his parents separated that year, Basquiat and his sisters were raised by their father.<ref name="Bosworth-1998" /><ref name="Hoban1988" /> His mother was admitted to a psychiatric hospital when he was ten and thereafter spent her life in and out of institutions.<ref>{{Harvnb|Fretz|2010|p=7}}</ref> By the age of eleven, Basquiat was fluent in French, Spanish and English, and an avid reader of all three languages.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wilson|first=Jamia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iSDtDwAAQBAJ&q=Basquiat+fluent+in+French,+Spanish+and+English&pg=PA16|title=Young Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present|date=February 1, 2018|publisher=Wide Eyed Editions|isbn=978-1-78603-158-7|pages=16|language=en}}</ref>

Basquiat's family resided in the Brooklyn neighborhood of [[Boerum Hill]] and then in 1974, moved to [[Miramar, Puerto Rico]].{{Sfn|Saggese|2021|p=330}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=One Basquiat|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/exhibitions/3356|access-date=April 4, 2021|website=Brooklyn Museum}}</ref> When they returned to Brooklyn in 1976, Basquiat attended [[Edward R. Murrow High School]].{{Sfn|Hoban|1998|p=21}} He struggled to deal with his mother's instability and rebelled as a teenager.<ref name="Sawyer-2017" /> He ran away from home at 15 when his father caught him [[Cannabis smoking|smoking cannabis]] in his room.{{Sfn|Hoban|1998|p=22}}<ref name="Bosworth-1998" /><ref name="Hoban1988" /> He slept on park benches at [[Washington Square Park]] and took [[Lysergic acid diethylamide|LSD]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Manatakis|first=Lexi|date=November 21, 2017|title=Jean-Michel Basquiat in his own words|url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/38129/1/-jean-michel-basquiat-in-his-own-words|access-date=November 20, 2020|website=Dazed|language=en}}</ref><ref name="McGuigan-1985" /> Eventually, his father spotted him with a shaved head and called the police to bring him home.{{Sfn|Hoban|1998|p=23}}

In the [[Tenth grade|10th grade]], he enrolled at [[City-As-School High School|City-As-School]], an alternative high school in Manhattan, home to many artistic students who found conventional schooling difficult.<ref name="Gotthardt-2017">{{Cite web|last=Gotthardt|first=Alexxa|date=December 1, 2017|title=Basquiat Left School at 17—and Made New York Museums His Classroom|url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-basquiat-left-school-17-made-new-york-museums-classroom|access-date=October 3, 2020|website=Artsy|language=en}}</ref> He would skip school with his friends, but still received encouragement from his teachers, and began to write and illustrate for the school newspaper.{{Sfn|Hoban|1998|p=25}} He developed the character [[SAMO]] to endorse a faux religion.{{Sfn|Hoban|1998|p=25-26}} The saying "SAMO" had started as a private joke between Basquiat and his schoolmate Al Diaz, as an abbreviation for the phrase "Same old shit."{{Sfn|Hoban|1998|p=25}} They drew a series of cartoons for their school paper before and after using SAMO©.<ref name="Faflick-2019" />