Poetry Quotes by Sonia Sanchez

I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.

— Sonia Sanchez

...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.

— Sonia Sanchez

The words loved me and I loved them in return.

— Sonia Sanchez

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

... in order to be a true revolutionary, you must understand love. Love, sacrifice, and death.

— Sonia Sanchez

And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.

— Sonia Sanchez

So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.

— Sonia Sanchez

what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.

— Sonia Sanchez

You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.

— Sonia Sanchez

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

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

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

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

— Sonia Sanchez

“It is essential that we always repeat: we the people, we the people, we the people.”

— Sonia Sanchez

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think…

— Sonia Sanchez