Sonia Sanchez quotes
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“The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.”
-- Sonia SanchezSource : "Black art is dangerous, because it marries the personal and political" by Hannah Giorgis, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2015.
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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 for the better.'”
-- Sonia SanchezSource : Sonia Sanchez, Joyce Ann Joyce (2007). “Conversations with Sonia Sanchez”, Univ Pr of Mississippi
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“I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.”
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“The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.”
-- Sonia SanchezSource : Sonia Sanchez (2010). “I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t and Other Plays”, p.16, Duke University Press
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“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 SanchezSource : Sonia Sanchez (2010). “I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t and Other Plays”, p.17, Duke University Press
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“it is midnight no magical bewitching hour for me”
-- Sonia SanchezSource : Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.8, Beacon Press
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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 a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama.”
-- Sonia SanchezSource : Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.58, Beacon Press
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“You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.”
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“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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“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 SanchezSource : Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.34, Beacon Press
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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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“what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.”
-- Sonia SanchezSource : Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems”, p.31, Beacon Press
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“The words loved me and I loved them in return.”
-- Sonia SanchezSource : Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.57, Beacon Press
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“So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.”
-- Sonia SanchezSource : Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.69, Beacon Press
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“...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.”
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“... in order to be a true revolutionary, you must understand love. Love, sacrifice, and death.”
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“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?”
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“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.”
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“I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.”
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“Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.”
-- Sonia SanchezSource : Sonia Sanchez (2010). “I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t and Other Plays”, p.15, Duke University Press
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“Art... reacts to or reflects the culture it springs from.”
-- Sonia SanchezSource : Sonia Sanchez (2010). “I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t and Other Plays”, p.15, Duke University Press
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“Come windless invader I am a carnival of Stars, a poem of blood.”
-- Sonia SanchezSource : Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems”, p.25, Beacon Press
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