Sonia Sanchez Quotes

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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 Sanchez
Under a soprano sky, a woman sings,
lovely as chandeliers.

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I have returned
leaving behind me
all those hide and
seek faces peeling
with freudian dreams,
this is for real,
black
niggers
my beauty.

Sonia Sanchez
We must learn to suckle life not
bombs and rhetoric.

Sonia Sanchez
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 Sanchez
It's america's
most famous past time
and the name
of the game
ain't baseball.

Sonia Sanchez
Blues ain't culture
they sounds of
oppression
against the white man's
shit.

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Forgive me if i laugh
you are so sure of love
you are so young
and i too old to learn of love.

Sonia Sanchez
Let me wear the day
well so when it reaches you
you will enjoy it.

Sonia Sanchez
I shall become a collector of me.
AND PUT MEAT ON MY SOUL.

Sonia Sanchez
And the words loved me and I loved them in return.

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And a new earth will rise. For we have endured and we are in spite of our wounds. In spite of our sorrow songs. We are. And shall be.

Sonia Sanchez
I am a blk /wooOOOOMAN
my face.
my brown
bamboo/colored
blk/berry/face
will spread itself over
this western hemisphere and
be remembered.

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

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I have learned it
ain't like they say
in the newspapers.

Sonia Sanchez
What i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.

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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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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.

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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 Sanchez