Sonia Sanchez Quotes

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• I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got…
• Art... reacts to or reflects the culture it springs from.
• Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.
• And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.
• I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.
• So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.
• Zora Neale Hurston said fear is the greatest emotion and I said, 'No my dear sister.' Fear will make us move to save our own…
• The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.
• I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the…
• Come windless invader I am a carnival of Stars, a poem of blood.
• what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.
• 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 give…
• All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'
• The words loved me and I loved them in return.

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