Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
Sonia Sanchez
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“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.”
“(once upon an afternoon i became still-life i carried a balloon and a long black knife.)”
“but i am what i am. woman. alone amid all this noise.”
“if i had known, if i had known you, i would have left my love at home. -Haiku”
“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.”
“For we the people will always be arriving a ceremony of thunder waking up the earth opening our eyes to human monuments. And it'll get better it'll get better if we the people work, organize, resist, come together for peace, racial, social and sexual justice it'll get better it'll get better.”
“you, man, will you remember me when i die? will you stare and stain my death and say i saw her dancen among swallows far from the world’s obscenities? you, man, will you remember and cry?”
“i told them that men and women are measured by their acts not by their swaggering speech or walk, or the money they have stashed between their legs.”
“i gather up each sound you left behind and stretch them on our bed. each nite i breathe you and become high.”
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