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.…

— 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…

— Sonia Sanchez

Zora Neale Hurston said fear is the greatest emotion and I said, 'No my dear sister.' Fear will make us move to…

— 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…

— 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.…

— Sonia Sanchez

The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing…

— Sonia Sanchez

I write to tell the truth about the black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to offer a black woman's…

— Sonia Sanchez

it is midnight no magical bewitching hour for me

— Sonia Sanchez

“Your days still half-opened, crackle like the fires to come. Outside. The earth. Wind. Night. Unfold for you. Listen to their sounds.…

— Sonia Sanchez

I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.

— Sonia Sanchez

Art... reacts to or reflects the culture it springs from.

— Sonia Sanchez

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.

— Sonia Sanchez

the first day i shot dope was on a sunday. i had just come home from church got mad at my mother…

— Sonia Sanchez

Come windless invader I am a carnival of Stars, a poem of blood.

— Sonia Sanchez

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the…

— Sonia Sanchez