Ntozake Shange Quotes
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The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.
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Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable.
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I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and…
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I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other…
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I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is…
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I write for young girls of color, for girls who don't even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive.…
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Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.
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I've never thought of leaving the South, never.
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When I die, I will no be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health…
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one thing I don’t need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs i don’t know…
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i found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely
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Where there is a woman there is magic.
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And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.
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Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic,…
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Multiculturalism is a white people joke.
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If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.
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