Sonia Sanchez Quotes

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Sonia Sanchez

3.
i have told
you my name
so there is
tomorrow.
4.
see me through
your own eyes
i am here. ~ Sonia Sanchez

How to dance
in blood and
remain sane? ~ Sonia Sanchez

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

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

Do not speak to me of martyrdom, of men who die to be remembered on some parish day. I don't believe in dying though, I too shall die. And violets like castanets will echo me. SONIA SANCHEZ ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

Wind as old as Rome outside my window, inky fleece clouds against charcoal crushed velvet skies, fall feels soulful, like a LaBelle octave. ~ Brandi L. Bates

In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play. ~ Danny Glover

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

FOR SONIA SANCHEZ ~ Nikki Giovanni

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

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

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

Let me wear the day
Well so when it reaches you
You will enjoy it. ~ Sonia Sanchez

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? ~ Sonia Sanchez

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

Tears,' they would sneer, 'are the indulgences of those who haven't suffered enough.' To ~ Sonia Faleiro

Diabetes taught me discipline. ~ Sonia Sotomayor

Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. there is no need to explain or make sense of it. just trust what you feel. ~ Sonia Choquette

It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities. ~ Sonia Gandhi

Raskolnikov at that moment felt and knew once for all that Sonia was with him for ever and would follow him to the ends of the earth, wherever fate might take him. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Love is very difficult to understand. And do you know why? Because love is the most idiotic thing in the universe, Tommy, but also the most important. That's why it's so hard to understand.
-pg 151 ~ Albert Sanchez Pinol

I figure when I die, I can't take anything with me. So why not give? ~ Sonia Nazario

I've spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me. ~ Sonia Sotomayor

How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love. ~ Sonia Johnson

The power of the word is real whether or not you are conscious of it. ~ Sonia Choquette

There isn't one single thing that will end unwinding. It will take a hodgepodge of random events that come together in just the right way and at just the right time to remind society it's got a conscience. -Sonia ~ Neal Shusterman

Start loving now, and you start Heaven now. ~ Bo Sanchez

Her rocking chair of carved wood and woven cane tilted between this world and another that was beyond imagining, wafting scents of talcum and medicinal tea, auras of lace-edged santos whose eyes rolled up to a heaven too close for comfort. ~ Sonia Sotomayor

Many of my classmates have happier memories of Blessed Sacrament, and in time I would find my own satisfaction in the classroom. My first years there, however, I met with little warmth. In part, it was that the nuns were critical of working mothers, and their disapproval was felt by latchkey kids. The irony of course was that my mother wouldn't have been working such long hours if not to pay for that education she believed was the key to any aspirations for a better life. ~ Sonia Sotomayor

I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry. ~ Sonia Johnson

Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of the things that matter least. ~ Bo Sanchez

Thus, Christ making His human divine and taking it into heaven is the central event of all time. It is the miracle of all miracles. The resurrection bursts like a sun on the timeline of history, which means this innermost event shines light on all points in history leading up to it and after it. ~ Steve Sanchez

With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that. ~ Sonia Sotomayor

Your trials can release your Gifts and Dreams. Your trials can set you free. ~ Bo Sanchez

To be intuitive, we must cultivate our sense of humor and look for reasons to laugh everywhere. We become so self-absorbed and serious when it comes to our problems and melodramas that we disconnect from our deeper sense of who we are as beautiful souls-we withdraw from life instead of enjoying it. Laughter brings us back to ourselves and back to life. ~ Sonia Choquette

Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land', in most instances they're not even law. ~ Sonia Sotomayor

I never met the boy, or his parents, but I see kids like him every day." Sonia tells Connor. "Their world is shattered, and they're so desperate for validation that they'd blow themselves up to get it. Any parent who disowns that boy after what he did, and didn't do . . . doesn't deserve to have children at all, much less a child to give away. ~ Neal Shusterman

Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk. ~ Sonia Rykiel

Sanchez looked at me and we locked eyes a second too long. There was nothing I could do about it. The signal went out. A moment of clear, silent hostility passed between us as hotly charged and unintentional as a thousand-volt arc through a squirrel. ~ Rick Riordan

I can run around completely naked if you like. ~ Patrick Sanchez

I'm one of the few people in this world who can do anything I choose. I can't tell you how good I'm feeling. ~ Sonia Johnson

Words have power. Words created this universe ... Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, 'In the beginning was the word.' In the same way, your words have creative power. ~ Bo Sanchez

Sometimes it gets boring. No justice is supposed to say that. But, you know, there's drudgery in every job you're going to do. ~ Sonia Sotomayor

We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable. ~ Sonia Johnson

Sink through the floor. Sonia, too, strove to control ~ Margaret Way

Next time you pray any kind of prayer, whether it be for the resolution of healing, or for a house, or for a car, or for a husband, or for a family conflict, or for a solution to a problem, tell Him he can say yes or no. Because in the end, you're a winner. Every time. ~ Bo Sanchez

We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us. Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing. ~ Sonia Johnson

Take responsibility for finding your one true love ~ Bo Sanchez