Sonia Sanchez Quotes

• 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 Sánchez

  Learning Something New, Views, World

  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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• You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.

  Sonia Sánchez

  People, Giving, Relationships With Others

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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 Sánchez

  Poetry, Political, Poet

  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.

  Sonia Sánchez

  Soul, Meat, Collectors

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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 Sánchez

  Art, America, United States

  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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• 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 Sánchez

  Girl, Giving Up, Rain

  Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.34, Beacon Press

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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.

  Sonia Sánchez

  Moving, Skins, Dear Sister

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• ... para ser un verdadero revolucionario, debes entender el amor. Amor, sacrificio y muerte.

  Sonia Sánchez

  Love, Death, Sacrifice

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• I write to tell the truth about the black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to offer a black woman's view of the world.

  Sonia Sánchez

  Writing, Views, Black

  Source: lunchticket.org

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• El artista negro es peligroso. El arte negro controla la realidad del "negro", niega las influencias negativas y crea imágenes positivas.

  Sonia Sánchez

  Art, Reality, Black

  "Black art is dangerous, because it marries the personal and political" by Hannah Giorgis, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2015.

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• And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.

  Sonia Sánchez

  Civilization, Body, Ruins

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• ...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.

  Sonia Sánchez

  Truth, Writing, People

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• Aún te oigo tararear, mamá. El color de tu canción me llama a casa. El color de tus palabras diciendo, Déjala ser. Tiene derecho a ser diferente. Va a tropezar consigo misma uno de estos días. Deja que la niña sea. Y yo ser, mamá.

  Sonia Sánchez

  Hija, Madre, Canción

  Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.58, Beacon Press

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• The words loved me and I loved them in return.

  Sonia Sánchez

  Book, Return

  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 Sánchez

  Growing Up, Waiting, Unbearable

  Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.69, Beacon Press

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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.

  Sonia Sánchez

  Arte, Carácter, Pensamiento

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• Art... reacts to or reflects the culture it springs from.

  Sonia Sánchez

  Art, Spring, Culture

  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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• Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

  Sonia Sánchez

  Conversation, Subconscious, Poetry Is

  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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• 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 breath, that one breath, because the haiku keeps you alive. It keeps you going. If you learn how to breath the haiku, you learn how to breathe. If you learn how to breathe, you're much healthier.

  Sonia Sánchez

  People, Trying, Alive

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Come windless invader I am a carnival of Stars, a poem of blood.

  Sonia Sánchez

  Stars, Blood, Invaders

  Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems”, p.25, Beacon Press

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• what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.

  Sonia Sánchez

  Kissing, Swimming, Mind

  Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems”, p.31, Beacon Press

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• I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.

  Sonia Sánchez

  Writing, America

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• it is midnight
  no magical bewitching
  hour for me

  Sonia Sánchez

  Night, Magic, Midnight

  Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.8, Beacon Press

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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?

  Sonia Sánchez

  Mother, Anger, Home

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• What is the beauty of the haiku is that it is not simplistic. The beauty of the haiku I just said is very complex. It reaches all the complexities of our life on this Earth. Peace - that's a very complex idea, peace, so we can't get it as human beings.

  Sonia Sánchez

  Ideas, Earth, Said

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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