This is not a Small Voice

The poetry of Sonia Sanchez is full of power and yet always clean and uncluttered. It makes you wish you had thought those thoughts, felt those emotions, and, above all, expressed them so effortlessly and so well

Chinua Achebe

Sonia Sanchez’s illustrious career spans seven decades. Her commanding oeuvre continues to elevate language’s ability to give voice to entire communities (their daily pleasures and pains) inside our shared and troubled history

Claudia Rankine

Only a poet with an innocent heart can exorcise so much pain with so much beauty

Isabel Allende

Praise for Sonia Sanchez

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A lion in literature's forest... This world is a better place because of Sonia Sanchez: more livable, more laughable, more manageable. I wish millions of people knew that some of the joy in their lives comes from the fact that Sonia Sanchez is writing poetry

Maya Angelou

You have spoken for us . . . Written for us . . . Sung to us . . . How much in your debt we are

Toni Morrison

Her songs of destruction and loss scrape the heart; her praise songs thunder and revitalize. We need these songs for our journey together into the next century

Joy Harjo, former US Poet Laureate

Sonia Sanchez’s poetry is a must for all readers. Period

Essence

For over 60 years, Sanchez has helped redefine the landscape of American politics and literature… one of the greats in American poetry

NPR