Sonia Sanchez famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Art #Reality #Black
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.'
-- Sonia Sanchez

#Political #Poetry #Poet
I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.
-- Sonia Sanchez

#Soul #Meat #Collectors
The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.
-- Sonia Sanchez

#Art #America #Fundamentals
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 clearer my view of the world becomes.
-- Sonia Sanchez

#Views #World #Growing
it is midnight no magical bewitching hour for me
-- Sonia Sanchez

#Night #Magic #Midnight
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 a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama.
-- Sonia Sanchez

#Daughter #Mother #Song
You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.
-- Sonia Sanchez

#People #Giving #Birth
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.
-- Sonia Sanchez

#Moving #Skins #Emotion
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 up on love.
-- Sonia Sanchez

#Girl #Giving Up #Rain
And I criedâ€¦ for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.
-- Sonia Sanchez

#Civilization #Ruins #Body
what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.
-- Sonia Sanchez

#Swimming #Kissing #Mind
The words loved me and I loved them in return.
-- Sonia Sanchez

#Book #Return
So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.
-- Sonia Sanchez

#Growing Up #Waiting #Unbearable
...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.
-- Sonia Sanchez

#Truth #Writing #People
... in order to be a true revolutionary, you must understand love. Love, sacrifice, and death.
-- Sonia Sanchez

#Love #Death #Sacrifice
the first day i shot dope was on a sunday. i had just come home from church got mad at my mother cuz she got mad at me. u dig?
-- Sonia Sanchez

#Mother #Anger #Home
The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.
-- Sonia Sanchez

#Art #Character #Thinking
I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.
-- Sonia Sanchez

#Writing #America
Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.
-- Sonia Sanchez

#Conversation #Subconscious #Poetry Is
Art... reacts to or reflects the culture it springs from.
-- Sonia Sanchez

#Art #Spring #Culture
Come windless invader I am a carnival of Stars, a poem of blood.
-- Sonia Sanchez

#Stars #Blood #Carnivals

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