"Zora Neale Hurston said fear is the greatest……" — 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 own skins. Love also makes us save ourselves, but it will make us move to save others as well."
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Sonia Sanchez
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14 Quotes by Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez has 14 quotes on this site.
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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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Art... reacts to or reflects the culture it springs from.
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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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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
— Aristotle
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
— Jane Austen
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
— Honore de Balzac
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
— Honore de Balzac
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What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided…
— Brigitte Bardot
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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
— John Barrymore
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of…
— Joseph Addison
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A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
— George Ade
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Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this…
— Jeff Bridges
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