Best 19 quotes of Sonia Sanchez on MyQuotes

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.'

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

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

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.

... in order to be a true revolutionary, you must understand love. Love, sacrifice, and death.

I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.

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.

it is midnight no magical bewitching hour for me

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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