Sonia Sanchez, from Like the singing coming off the drums: Love Poems; “Remembering and Honoring Toni Cade Bambara”

[Text ID: “i have stored in my / blood the / memory of your voice”]

when sandra cisneros said "For a long time after, I’d just burst into tears if anyone even touched me. Sometimes it’s like that when somebody touches you and you haven’t been touched in a long time." and when jamaica kincaid said "I felt very sad so I sat down. I felt so sad that I rested my head on my own knees and smoothed my own head. I felt so sad I couldn’t imagine feeling any other way again." and when sonia sanchez said "And I cried. For myself. For this woman talkin’ about love. For all the women who have ever stretched their bodies out anticipating civilization and finding ruins."

— Haiku [i count the morning], Sonia Sanchez

The Passenger 2023 dr. Carter Smith // Sonia Sanchez, from Like the singing coming off the drums: Love Poems; “Remembering and Honoring Toni Cade Bambara”

And I sat out my childhood with stutters and poems gathered in my head like some winter storm. And the poems erased the stutters and pain. And the words loved me and I loved them in return.

— Sonia Sanchez, from Shake Loose My Skin

Haiku

we grow up my love

Because as yet there is no

other place to go

Sonia Sanchez

— sonia sanchez, “last poem i’m gonna write bout us” (listen to her read it here)

We are what we are what we never think we are.

— Sonia Sanchez, from "Personal Letter No. 3" in Power Poetry

Sonia Sanchez, right on: white america (1970), in Soulscript. Afro-American Poetry, Edited by June Jordan, Zenith Books, Garden City, NY, 1970, p. 104

Sonia Sanchez, from Like the singing coming off the drums: Love Poems; “Haiku [for you]”

[Text ID: “love between us is / speech and breath. loving you is / a long river running.”]

Sonia Sanchez ❣️

Lucile Clifton & Sonia Sanchez: Mirrors & Windows (10/24/2001)

let me wear the day

well so when it reaches you

you will enjoy it

Sonia Sanchez

We love this portrait of the poet Sonia Sanchez with Mos Def! ❤️❤️