A Sun Lady for All Seasons Reads Her Poetry

Sonia Sanchez FW09793 / FL 9793

“This record is gonna be talking about love; A black woman’s love for her children, man and nation. But you know before you can love someone you gots to love yourself. I mean you gots to dig on yourself, know that you be bad, badder than bad in fact…” In this collection of poems, Sonia Sanchez aims to uplift the Black community and specifically the Black woman for whom Sanchez continues to be an advocate.

Country(s) United States
Culture Group(s) African American
Keyword(s) Instructional; Poetry; Spoken word
Language(s) English

Year of Recording 1971
Record Label Folkways Records
Source Archive Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Credits Artist Sonia Sanchez ; Authored by Sonia Sanchez ; Cover photo by Bilal Farid ; Design by Ronald Clyne

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101	Black Magic	Sonia Sanchez	2:15
102	To a Jealous Cat	Sonia Sanchez	0:58
103	Answer to Yo/Question	Sonia Sanchez	1:17
104	Last Poem I'm Gonna Write About Us	Sonia Sanchez	1:00
105	Poem for Etheridge	Sonia Sanchez	0:51
106	Blk/ Wooomen/ chant	Sonia Sanchez	1:06
107	Welcome Home, My Prince	Sonia Sanchez	1:06
108	For My Children	Sonia Sanchez	1:58
109	To Morani/ Mungu	Sonia Sanchez	1:40
110	To Anita	Sonia Sanchez	1:18
111	Don't Wanna Be	Sonia Sanchez	1:18
112	City Songs	Sonia Sanchez	0:59
113	We Can Be	Sonia Sanchez	0:56
114	When We Come	Sonia Sanchez	0:50
115	It's a New Day	Sonia Sanchez	1:27
201	Listen to Big Black at s, f, State	Sonia Sanchez	1:34
202	To Fanon	Sonia Sanchez	2:09
203	Liberation / Poem	Sonia Sanchez	0:42
204	Summer Words of a Situh Addict	Sonia Sanchez	1:31
205	So This is Our Revolution	Sonia Sanchez	1:44
206	I WaaaAAANNT to Know; I neeeEEEDS to know	Sonia Sanchez	2:26
207	Ima Talkin Bout the Nation of Islam	Sonia Sanchez	3:19
208	A Needed/Poem for My Salvation	Sonia Sanchez	2:23
209	A Black/Woman/Speaks	Sonia Sanchez	2:42

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