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21 " Let me wear the dayWell so when it reaches youYou will enjoy it. "
― Sonia Sanchez
22 " your handshumming hurricanesof beauty. "
― Sonia Sanchez , Morning Haiku
23 " what i need is travelingminds talktouch kisses spittouchyou swimming upstream. "
24 " How to dancein blood andremain sane? "
25 " Your days still half-opened, crackle like the fires to come. Outside. The earth. Wind. Night. Unfold for you. Listen to their sounds. They have sung me seasons that never abandoned me. "
― Sonia Sanchez , Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
26 " 3. i have toldyou my nameso there istomorrow.4.see me throughyour own eyesi am here. "
27 " (once upon an afternooni became still-lifei carried a balloon and a long black knife.) "
28 " I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing. "
29 " if i had known, ifi had known you, i would haveleft my love at home.-Haiku "
30 " No. Don’t never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It’ll come. Like the rain fallin’ from the heaven, it’ll come. Just don’t never give up on love. "
31 " your face like summer lightning gets caught in my voice and i draw you up from deep rivers taste your face of a thousand names see you smile a new season hear your voice a wild sea pausing in the wind "
― Sonia Sanchez , Homegirls and Handgrenades
32 " i gather upeach soundyou left behindand stretch themon our bed.each nitei breathe youand become high. "
33 " Girl don’t you know yet that you don’t never give up on love? Don’t you know you has in you the pulse of winds? The noise of dragonflies? "
34 " you, man, will you remember me when i die?will you stare and stain my death and sayi saw her dancen among swallowsfar from the world’s obscenities?you, man, will you remember and cry? "
35 " To P.J. (2 yrs old who sed writea poem for me in Portland, Oregon)if i cud ever write apoem as beautiful as ulittle 2/yr/old/brotha,I wud laugh, jump, leapup and touch the starscuz u be the poem i try foreach time i pick up a pen and paper.u. and Morani and Mungube our blue/blk/stars thatwill shine on our lives andmakes us finally BE.if i cud ever write a poem as beautifulas u, little 2/yr/old/brotha,poetry wud go out of bizness. "
36 " Is she a writer too, ma?""No, honey. She's a lady who has lived life instead of writing about it. "
37 " Haiku [For you]love between us isspeech and breath. loving you isa long river running "
38 " This earth is hard symmetry This earth of feverish war This earth inflamed with hate "
39 " this country might havebeen a pio neer landonce.but. there ain’tno mo indians blowingcuster’s mind with a differentimage of america. this countrymight have needed shoot/outs/daily/ once. but. there ain’tno mo real/white/ allamerican bad/guys.just. u & me. blk/and un/armed.this country might havebeen a pion eer land. once. and it still is.check out the fallinggun/shells on our blk/tomorrows. "
40 " Where there are many men without honor, there will always be some others whobear in themselves the honor of many men. "
― Sonia Sanchez , The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story