Quotes from Sonia Sanchez

Help me, Sandy. Listen to my talk. Hold my hand when I git too sad. Laugh at my fears that keep poppin' out on me like some childhood disease. Be my vaccine, babee. I need you. Don't ever leave me, babee, cuz I'll never have a love like you again. I'll never have another woman again if you leave me.

It is essential that we always repeat: we the people, we the people, we the people.

this day is not real. the crowing of the far-away carillons ring out direction less. even you are un real roasting under a man hattan sky while passersby flap their indecent tongues. even i am un real but i am black and thought to be without meaning. - on seeing Pacifist burn

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

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