“Your days still half-opened, crackle like the fires to come. Outside. The earth. Wind. Night. Unfold for you. Listen to their sounds. They have sung me seasons that never abandoned me.” — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
“For we the people will always be arriving a ceremony of thunder waking up the earth opening our eyes to human monuments. And it'll get better it'll get better if we the people work, organize, resist, come together for peace,… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do is to tell young people that I teach them how to breathe before I teach the haiku. That one… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
... in order to be a true revolutionary, you must understand love. Love, sacrifice, and death. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
Zora Neale Hurston said fear is the greatest emotion and I said, 'No my dear sister.' Fear will make us move to save our… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heaven, it'll come. Just don't never… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
