31 Quotes by Sonia Sanchez

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.