Ancestor Quote by Sonia Sanchez Download Open image “...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.” — Sonia Sanchez ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancestor Contact Heritage People Spread Truth Writing
I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible. — Katharine Susannah Prichard Copy Share Image
Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people. — Loretta Lynn Copy Share Image
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want to share… — Daphne Oz Copy Share Image
I write because I actually enjoy writing. It's a plus and a fringe benefit that, you know, I can actually provide for my family… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
I love to write - it is a great source of reflection, especially as I continue to meet many new inspiring people. — Jane Goodall 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
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
Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors in the… — Anna Thomas Copy Share Image
Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are,… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors; our bodies… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
It is how it has always been. We will accept the legacy of our ancestors,' Asha says, smiling, and in her smile I do… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
