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Sonia Sanchez
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“i have learned it / ain't like they say / in the newspapers.”
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“if i cud ever write a poem as beautiful / as u, little 2/yr/old/brotha, / poetry wud go out of bizness.”
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“we can be anything we want / for we are the young ones / walken without footprints ...”
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“nine months passed and my body / heavy with the knowledge of gods / turned landward, came to rest.”
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“The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.”
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“... the woods, tall as waves, sang in mixed / tongues that loosened the scalp ...”
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“And the words loved me and I loved them in return.”
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“So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.”
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“You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.”
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“I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.”
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“blues ain't culture / they sounds of / oppression / against the white man's / shit.”
Sonia Sanchez, U.S. writer, poet, educator
(1934)
Born: Wilsonia Benita Driver.