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Excerpt from
This is the time for the creative
Man. Woman. Who must decide
that She. He. Can live in peace.
Racial and sexual justice on
this earth.
Sonia Sanchez at the Academy of American Poets
Sonia Sanchez interviewed by David Reich at Unitarina/Universalist World
All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, “Something’s wrong, let’s change it for the better.” That’s what my life has really been about.
Someone once asked me in an interview, “If you had been born white, would you have the passion for justice?” I had to think for a moment, but then I said, “I would have had the same heart, the same liver, the same lungs, and the same brain. And I would have had the same eyes, too. And I think at some point, I would have looked out at the world and seen something wrong with it, and I would have talked about change.”
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