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Top 15 Sonia Sanchez Quotes (2024 Update)

Sonia Sanchez Quote: “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.’”

1. “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

Sonia Sanchez Quote: “Come windless invader I am a carnival of Stars, a poem of blood.”

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

— Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez Quote: “You can’t have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.”

3. “You can’t have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.”

— Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Sonia Sanchez Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Sonia Sanchez Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Sonia Sanchez Quote: “So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.”

7. “So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.”

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Sonia Sanchez Quote: “Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.”

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

— Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez Quote: “The words loved me and I loved them in return.”

9. “The words loved me and I loved them in return.”

— Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez Quote: “I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.”

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

— Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Sonia Sanchez Quote: “I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I’ve maintained good controls over myself by writing.”

12. “I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I’ve maintained good controls over myself by writing.”

— Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez Quote: “The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.”

13. “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

Sonia Sanchez Quote: “Your days still half-opened, crackle like the fires to come. Outside. The earth. Wind. Night. Unfold for you. Listen to their sounds. They have sung me seasons that never abandoned me.”

14. “Your days still half-opened, crackle like the fires to come. Outside. The earth. Wind. Night. Unfold for you. Listen to their sounds. They have sung me seasons that never abandoned me.”

— Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez Quote: “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.”

15. “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 Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez Quote: “Girl don’t you know yet that you don’t never give up on love? Don’t you know you has in you the pulse of winds? The noise of dragonflies?”

16. “Girl don’t you know yet that you don’t never give up on love? Don’t you know you has in you the pulse of winds? The noise of dragonflies?”

— Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez Quote: “Answer me. Where does a Black woman go when she is me, trailed by myths that this country has invented about her? Where to go to, when all of you have been there already, and claimed the turf as your own and you watch the rest of us shipwrecked by circumstance and color, looking. Waiting. Needing.”

17. “Answer me. Where does a Black woman go when she is me, trailed by myths that this country has invented about her? Where to go to, when all of you have been there already, and claimed the turf as your own and you watch the rest of us shipwrecked by circumstance and color, looking. Waiting. Needing.”

— Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez Quote: “Today, home from Trinidad, I thank James Arthur Baldwin for his legacy of fire. A fine rain of words when we had no tongues. He set fire to our eyes. Made a single look, gesture endure. Made a people meaningful and moral. Responsible finally for all our sweet and terrible lives.”

18. “Today, home from Trinidad, I thank James Arthur Baldwin for his legacy of fire. A fine rain of words when we had no tongues. He set fire to our eyes. Made a single look, gesture endure. Made a people meaningful and moral. Responsible finally for all our sweet and terrible lives.”

— Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez Quote: “Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be.”

19. “Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be.”

— Sonia Sanchez

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