Apology Quote by Ntozake Shange

My characters don't talk necessarily in a normal American way of talking. They talk a little different.

— Ntozake Shange

It still amazes and fascinates me that women of color have kept my work alive for these many generations.

— Ntozake Shange

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…

— Ntozake Shange

My family moved around a lot, so I don't have any friends that I had all my life, but I did have annual trips…

— Ntozake Shange

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

— Ntozake Shange

Where there is a woman there is magic.

— Ntozake Shange

i usedta live in the world really be in the world free & sweet talkin good mornin & thank-you & nice day uh huh…

— Ntozake Shange

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

— Ntozake Shange

White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.

— Ntozake Shange

Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power.

— Ntozake Shange

Art gives us the opportunity to have clarity as well as hope that we might be able to survive a situation, or hope that…

— Ntozake Shange

I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then we are…

— Ntozake Shange