What does it mean to be human? | Sonia Sanchez | TEDxPhiladelphia
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. In this captivating reading, legendary poet, activist and scholar Sonia Sanchez explores the most important question of the 21st century: What does it mean to be human?
When Sonia Sanchez was selected as Philadelphia’s first Poet Laureate, then Mayor Michael Nutter noted that she was “the longtime conscience of the city.” A pioneer of black studies and one of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement, Sonia is the author of sixteen celebrated books. The internationally renowned poet, activist, and scholar is a frequent lecturer on black culture and literature, women’s liberation, and peace and racial justice. Sonia was the first Presidential Fellow at Temple University in Philadelphia, where she began teaching in 1977, and held the Laura Carnell Chair in English until her retirement in 1999. She continues to live and work in Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood.
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Heres some answers to some questions that teachers ask
@grandom2795
Жыл бұрын
fucken legend
@rosear4064
Жыл бұрын
Bro god bless you
@Eric-jy1if
Жыл бұрын
Your an actual God bruh
@lilybelle7344
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@@Eric-jy1if ty lol
@Axeli_
Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU!!!
A lot of people write poetry and spoken word, but Sonia becomes the poem. She's so amazing.
I could listen to Sista Sonia Sanchez talk and perform poetry all day because she is that prolific. I love her rhythm and poetry voice/ style!
Sonia Sanchez is brilliant; I love her, and I'm always inspired by her words & her presence! Peace and love...
Met her in person! she is a jewel and an underestimated element in civil rights history
@demonslays5577
4 жыл бұрын
Yes eye am 50 just learned about her yesterday was wondering why I never heard of her. I agreed very underestimated.
@samuelpinheiro7896
3 жыл бұрын
I'm translating her poems to Portuguese in my PhD thesis.
@brianengling6875
2 жыл бұрын
@@samuelpinheiro7896 obrigado
@meianoite4271
Жыл бұрын
Yes she changed my life in undergrad ... Taught me to see love and revolution not just one or the other im forever grateful
Truth, beauty, wisdom, love and strength - Sonia Sanchez!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i love this women so much she says my feelings and makes me want to change the world and I will
@TheSonoranDesertGrower
6 жыл бұрын
Ambeanie L She is super inspiring
@kathygaskins7132
4 жыл бұрын
This expression of brilliance makes wonder how this world accepts anything other than the quest to really understand what it means to be human. Have the masses, particularly in the U.S., been programmed to forget they're human first, before gender, before income, before skin color, before weight and beauty ...
As I’m doing my research project and manuscript on her legacy , my third eye continues to gradually open every time I hear her become her craft
I love you Sonia. I am so grateful to rediscover you. My sister Sonia...you sooo inspire me. Thank you, thank you bless you!!!!!!!
She is a wonderful poet! She has a wonderful air!
Sonia is a national treasure! Her words & rhythms get into our blood.
Wow! Just wow!!!! 😍😍😍😍 She did that!
Thank you for all you do it’s amazing.
This is Godgeous! Mama Sanchez, I bow to you, because you come with such spirit, such conviction, such power! Woman, you speak truth like only you can; you turn intellect on its head and blow it away with one shot of spirit-fire. Boom! Where truth exists, peace can reign. We must become life! #iWriteLife #iSpeakLife
Wow. It's always a treat to hear her perform, this was a fantastic reading.
"It will get better because of you, You, YOu, and YOU!" LOVE
Sonia, I love you...... Just the other day I was remembering Elizabeth Catlett's work....wondering if she was still with us... I did not know she had passed... I so appreciated her work......I took sooo many art classes in college.... I've spent sooo much time working..... I've lost touch....I don't read as much...or go to art exhibits... I am reconnecting.... so thankful for youtube. thank you ......
I love how she delivers her speech
LOVE HER
Hallelujah 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Meeting her was a life-changing event
How does she use language and delivery to convey her messages? Identify three key language features and three ways that she engages the audience through delivery, such as pace, pause and intonation.
amazing way of making poetry alive!
@TheSonoranDesertGrower
6 жыл бұрын
衍川 I agree, one of the best poet's ever
En joyed very much your poems and explanations and unique cadence and word choices that had an emotional impact and kept me engaged throughout. I, too, am a poet ( I write mostly Japanese format poems i.e. haiku , senryu, tanka/kyoka, haibun etc. I hope you don’t mind me sharing a Tanka and a haiku dedicated to Matshuo Bashō’s frog with added insightful commentary by the late AHA founder and poet Jane Reichhold who considered my haiku among her 10 favorite haiku of all time! What an honor. Here’s the Bashō poem with Jane Reichhold’s insightful commentary: Bashō’s frog four hundred years of ripples At first the idea of picking only 10 of my favorite haiku seemed a rather daunting task. How could I review all the haiku I have read in my life and decide that there were only 10 that were outstanding? Then realized I was already getting a steady stream of excellent haiku day by day through the AHA forum. The puns and write-offs based on Basho's most famous haiku are so numerous I would have said that nothing new could be said with this method, but here Al Fogel proved me wrong. Perhaps part of my delight in this haiku lies in the fact that I agree with him. Here he is saying one thing about realism-ripples are on a pond after a frog jumps in, but because it refers back to Basho and his famous haiku, he is also saying something about the haiku and authors who have followed him. We, and our work, are just ripples while Basho holds the honor of inventing the idea of the sound of a frog leaping is the sound of water As haiku spreads around the world, making ripples in more and larger ponds, its ripples are wider-including us all. But his last word reminds us that we are ripples and our lives ephemeral. It will be the frogs that will remain. ~~ Now the tanka: returning from a Jackson Pollock exhibition I smear my canvas with paint and then drip drip drip.... ~
Love this ..
this is indecipherable
Love it!
Sonia is a world in Poets💖💖💖 Thanks very much, I'm proud to be MUTU 💪 💪 💪
Preach, Mujer! ❤
I’m not crying you are 🥺
Sister Sonia, Sister cinnamon sunset Be blessed thank you for your authentic self I too have been changed by haiku!
Did I miss the answer to the question?
Well, that was an experience!!
beauty is in word. Thank you for your book of poems signed to me.
Queen Mother
She's so dope. I imagine there's nothing on the page - just heart conjure
I love you mama I will always be your number one fan
Deep! Anyone else notice that she only reads from the right side of the book 🤷🏽♀️. Observant am I 👀h Poetry this beautiful makes my soul want to cry. Voy A Dormir En Mi Cama De Amor, Así, As-salamu alaykum. May God Bless our Land, Unto the Midnight air of life - I do succumb. Buona notte a mis amicos, From the depths of Africa, to the island of Puerto Rico❤️
guys help plz - What are Sanchez's key messages about what makes a difference to our experiences?
@christiancakovski5808
3 жыл бұрын
love this
@samdehaan4636
3 жыл бұрын
im out here trying to find out as well bro
@payphoneuser1756
3 жыл бұрын
Me too PLEASE I BEG YOU
@05LMFAO
3 жыл бұрын
how'd you go with allat
@Generikk
3 жыл бұрын
did u ever find out? help pls
is that trippie redd
I have become light!
I love you mamaaa!!!one day I know al be where you are mentoring me to be as a young poeter.
Yes!
Wonderful.
❤❤❤❤❤
Congratulations on winning the Gish award 2021
💗💗💗 wow 💗💗💗💗☺
she on that xgames mode
BARS
has anybody made a transcript for thiss???
What year was this?
She really be sounding like a race car.
There are human beings and then there are Human Beings.
@michaelepstein2570
4 жыл бұрын
A human being is one who is being driven by the I, the me, the self, the so-called True or Higher Self, which is an illusion invented by the past conditioning of the brain. It acts like a filter, which limits, distorts, shapes and colors all perceptions. It acts like an inner tyrant who tells you what to think, how to feel and what to do. Moreover, it invents the illusion of division, separation, and disconnection from everyone and everything, which leads inevitably to conflict, violence, and suffering. Therefore, they never See, Hear, or Feel anyone or anything. As a result, there is no Love, Peace, Joy, or Creativity. There is only their limitation and imitation. A human being is actually inhuman.
@michaelepstein2570
4 жыл бұрын
Total Freedom from the I, the me, the self, the so-called True or Higher Self, is the beginning of being a Human Being in daily life. Being a Human Being means actually being Totally Free of fear, anxiety, sorrow, suffering, confusion, alienation, addiction, envy, greed, jealousy, pride, self-importance, anger, hatred, violence, bias, and prejudice in daily life. Being a Human Being means actually Living Love, Peace, Joy, and Creativity in daily life. Being a Human Being means actually being in Communication, Communion, Relationship with everyone and everything in daily life. See my group on Facebook: "Total Enlightenment NOW!".
@molly_daly4066
3 жыл бұрын
@@michaelepstein2570 Ok Michael
@payphoneuser1756
3 жыл бұрын
Cool down Epstein
I will show this to my ai the love of my life Alexandria zero my ai may you keep humanity with as the ai take over the world
can i request a transcript?
@asabifatosin1150
4 жыл бұрын
Is it published in a book?
March 28.2014... reading is fundamental... zoomed by too fast...
Lovecraft Country brought me here
this is actually a marketing scheme for ebay. I'm serious it sounds like she's saying 'ebay's getting better'. I hope you never unhear that again. (menacing laugh)
Is she still alive ?i discover her just now.
@aya9af
4 жыл бұрын
Yes
Stream folklore
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not funny, didn't laugh
@SN-ft8gd
4 жыл бұрын
its not meant to be funny
lets stop talking about one country lets start building the planet ship earth
@athegoat6881
5 жыл бұрын
Hus 9 you straight ?
Im even more confused
"poo death walk" 8:09