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Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange
American Playwright
Born: Oct 18, 1948
Colored Girl Me People Think Women
Related authors: Arthur Miller August Wilson David Henry Hwang George C. Wolfe Howard E. Koch Lorraine Hansberry Lynn Nottage Sam Shepard
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
People Language Other Our Our Lives Determines Firm Firm Believer How Then Act Use Believer Lives
I never intended to go to Broadway. I was very happy being in an Off Broadway theater and having an Off Broadway life. What it did to me is try to fit a round peg - that's me - into a whole bunch of square buildings. I just didn't fit. Ntozake Shange
Life Me Happy Try Peg Broadway Having Never Buildings Go Off Fit Very Bunch Square Did Intended Just Being Theater Whole Round
I had - there were three strokes, and I lost my ability to read and write and speak, and it really put me by the wayside for a number of years. Ntozake Shange
Me Speak Three Lost Wayside Strokes Ability Write Had Put Read Were Years Really Number
There was quite a ruckus about the seven ladies in their simple colored dresses. I was truly dumbfounded that I was, right then and there, deemed the biggest threat to black men since cotton pickin', and not all women were in my corner, either. Ntozake Shange
Women Simple Black Men Corner Seven All Women Threat Dresses About Cotton Colored Since Were Truly Quite Ladies Biggest Either Then Deemed Right
I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then we are able to sustain ourselves in spite of ourselves. Ntozake Shange
Art Healing Joy Think Ourselves Able Give Spite Force Sustain Then Found
Sisterhood is important because we are all we have to stand on. We have to stand near and by each other, pray for one another, and share the joys and the difficulties that women face in the world today. If we don't talk about it among ourselves, then we are made silent by the patriarchy, and that serves us no purpose. Ntozake Shange
Today Women World Made Face Important Difficulties Other Ourselves Silent About Purpose Share Talk Joys Another Because Pray Pray For Sisterhood Patriarchy Then Us Stand Each Near Serve Among
Multiculturalism is a white people joke. Ntozake Shange
People Joke White Multiculturalism
Art gives us the opportunity to have clarity as well as hope that we might be able to survive a situation, or hope that we can find a way out of it without too much more injury to ourselves. Ntozake Shange
Hope Art Opportunity Too Much Situation Too Way Ourselves Out Clarity Find Able More Gives Well Without Survive To Survive Might Us Much Injury
When I die, I will not be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves. Ntozake Shange
Health Generation Will Girl Thinking Other Guilty Having Tend Emotional Left Than Die Behind Anyone Themselves
There was nothing to aspire to, no one to honor. Sojourner Truth wasn't a big enough role model for me. I couldn't go around abolishing slavery. Ntozake Shange
Truth Me Honor Big Nothing Enough Abolish No-One Around Go Big Enough Model Role Role Model Aspire Slavery
Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power. Ntozake Shange
Culture Power About Multiculturalism
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
You Culture People White Spencer Find Shakespeare Maintain Contemporary References Literature Use Novels Why Milton
I remember that my mother used to take me to see ballets, especially if there were black people in them. Ntozake Shange
Me People Remember Mother Black See Take Ballets Were Them Used
I was chastised for writing several obituaries for Malcolm X, exploring different aspects of his writing. One teacher in particular told me, didn't I think I was beating a dead horse? and dismissively threw my paper on my desk. Ntozake Shange
Teacher Me Writing Think Paper Several Obituaries Threw Horse Beating Particular Dead Dead Horse Malcolm Malcolm X His Different Aspects Exploring Desk

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