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Ntozake Shange Quotes

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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 people’s lives.  (Ntozake Shange Quotes) If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is  (Ntozake Shange Quotes) Creation is everything you do. Make something  (Ntozake Shange Quotes) Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven’t conquered yet.  (Ntozake Shange Quotes) Where there is woman there is magic  (Ntozake Shange Quotes) Novels allow me to create a whole world  (Ntozake Shange Quotes) Right now being born a girl is to be born threatened  (Ntozake Shange Quotes) In our ordinaryness we are most bizarre  (Ntozake Shange Quotes) Our dreams draw blood from old sores  (Ntozake Shange Quotes) 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 people’s lives  (Ntozake Shange Quotes) I hit my head against the wall because I don’t want to know all the terrible things that I know about. I don’t want to feel all these wretched things, but they’re in me already. If I don’t get rid of them, I’m not ever going to feel anything else  (Ntozake Shange Quotes) My spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul and gender  (Ntozake Shange Quotes) Where there is a woman there is magic  (Ntozake Shange Quotes) I found God in myself and I loved her I loved her fiercely  (Ntozake Shange Quotes) Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven’t conquered yet  (Ntozake Shange Quotes) 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 other than themselves  (Ntozake Shange Quotes) 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  (Ntozake Shange Quotes) 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. I can only change how they live, not how they think  (Ntozake Shange Quotes) The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, and accepted indifference as kindness  (Ntozake Shange Quotes) When words and manners leave you no space for yourself make very personal very clear and your obstructions will join you or disappear  (Ntozake Shange Quotes) 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 what to do wit em they don’t open doors or bring the sun back they don’t make me happy or get a mornin paper didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars cuz a sorry  (Ntozake Shange Quotes) 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 knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground  (Ntozake Shange Quotes)