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Sonia Sanchez (born Wilsonia Benita Driver; September 9, 1934) is an African-American poet most often associated with the Black Arts Movement. She has authored over a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children's books. She was a recipient of 1993 Pew Fellowships in the Arts. In 2001, Sanchez was the recipient of the Robert Frost Medal for her poetry (one of the highest honors awarded to a nationally recognized poet) and has been influential to other African-American female poets, including Krista Franklin.

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

Constant, Growing, Growing Up, Unbearable, Waiting

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.

Day, Learning Something New, Tell, Unless, Views, World

Art. . . reacts to or reflects the culture it springs from.

Art, Culture, Reacts, Spring, Springs

what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.

Kissing, Mind, Spittouch, Swimming, Traveling, Upstream

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

Bodies, Body, Civilization, Ruins, Stretched, Women

. . . I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.

Ancestors, Keep, People, Truth, Writing

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

America, Controls, Good, Write, Writing

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.

Dear Sister, Love, Make, Moving, Neale, Skins

it is midnight no magical bewitching hour for me

Bewitching, Hour, Magic, Midnight, Night

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

Become, Collector, Collectors, Meat, Soul

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?

Anger, Church, Day, Dope, Home, Mother

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

America, Art, Concerned, Truth, United States

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

Blood, Come, Invaders, Stars, Windless

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.

Colour, Daughter, Mother, Saying, Song, Stumble

The words loved me and I loved them in return.

Book, Loved, Return, Words

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

Conversation, Poetry Is, Subconscious, Understand, Work

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.

Art, Character, Greatest, Joy, Think, Thinking