Quotes by Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange

And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.

Girl

Moving

Suicide

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven’t conquered yet.

African American

Feminist

Women

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

Creation

Creativity

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.

Feet

Wind

Writing

i found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely

God

Healing

Love

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.

Terrible

Wall

Want

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 related to this vacancy – a yearning I had as a teenager. . .and when I get ready to write, I think I’m trying to fill that. . .

Teenager

Thinking

Writing

i usedta live in the world really be in the world free & sweet talkin good mornin & thank-you & nice day uh huh i cant now i cant be nice to nobody nice is such a rip-off regular beauty & a smile in the street is just a set-up

Nice

Rip

Sweet

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.

Girl

Thinking

Writing

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.

Brilliant

People

Use

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African American

Apology

Average

Bizarre

Blood

Born

Brilliant

Confused

Creation

Creativity

Disappear

Draws

Dream

Emotional

Fall

Feelings

Feet

Feminist

Girl

God

Healing

Ideas

Inspiring

Kindness

Leaving

Love

Magic

Manners

Moon

Moving

Nice

Niceness

Novel

Ordinariness

Our Society

Pain

People

Rip

Separation

Song

Sorry

Soul

South

Space

Spirit

Struggle

Suicide

Sweet

Sympathy

Teenager

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Quotes by Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange

And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven’t conquered yet.

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

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.

i found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely

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.

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 related to this vacancy – a yearning I had as a teenager. . .and when I get ready to write, I think I’m trying to fill that. . .

i usedta live in the world really be in the world free & sweet talkin good mornin & thank-you & nice day uh huh i cant now i cant be nice to nobody nice is such a rip-off regular beauty & a smile in the street is just a set-up

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.

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.

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