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{SPEAKER name="Sonia Sanchez"}
scent, beneath the sun. And I dance my creation and my grandmothers gathering from my bones like great wooden birds spread their wings while their long legged laughter stretches the night.

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And I taste the seasons of my birth, mangoes, papayas.
Drink my woman coconut milks. Stalk the ancient grandfathers sipping on proud afternoons.

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Walk with a song around my waist. Tremble like a newborn child trouble with new breaths.
And my singing becomes the only sound of a blue-black magical woman. Walking, womb, ripe, walking, loud with mornings, walking, making pilgrimage to herself. walking.

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{SPEAKER name="Pam Johnson "}
You have been listening to an interview with black American poet, storyteller and playwright Sonia Sanchez and professor Sarah Fabio. I'm Pam Johnson. Our operator has been Bob Chan. The literary corner is made possible by funds from WHA radio, Madison Wisconsin a service of the University of Wisconsin extension.

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