The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.
Sonia SanchezPoetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.
Sonia SanchezThe most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.
Sonia SanchezThe 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