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Ntozake Shange Inspirational Quotes (12)

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When words & manners leave you no space for yourself make very personal very clear & your obstructions will join you or disappear.
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in our ordinaryness we are most bizarre.
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Right now being born a girl is to be born threatened.
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Where there is a woman there is magic.
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nice is such a rip-off.
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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 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
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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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Novels allow me to create a whole world.
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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. I can only change how they live, not how they think.
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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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my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender
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