"Art... reacts to or reflects the culture it…" — Sonia Sanchez
"Art... reacts to or reflects the culture it springs from."
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14 Quotes by Sonia Sanchez
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I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying,…
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Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.
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And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.
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I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.
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So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.
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Zora Neale Hurston said fear is the greatest emotion and I said, 'No my dear sister.' Fear will make us…
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The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.
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I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day.…
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Come windless invader I am a carnival of Stars, a poem of blood.
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what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.
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No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heaven, it'll…
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All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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