Sonia Sanchez
Excerpt from
 

Ballad


 
forgive me if i laugh
you are so sure of love
you are so young
and i too old to learn of love.





Sonia Sanchez's web page

Sonia Sanchez at the Academy of American Poets

from a documentary about Sonia Sanchez
We had to slice up many a thing, to scrape the veneer that was on America, the veneer that was on Harlem, the veneer that was on the entire country,” Sanchez says in the film. “And as we scraped we got to some real blood and began to spit out words that the country was paying attention to.”

"peace"