Ntozake Shange Quotes
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
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I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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Pilates is great.
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The welfare of Catalonia is only possible outside of Spain.
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Comedy gives you a shot of euphoria that distracts you from everything that's awful.
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Hockey seems completely lawless and, therefore, inexplicably sexy.
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I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.
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Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
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Most of my time as a legislator, I served in the minority. So I'm used to getting the heel of a loaf of bread.
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Everything we got was never given to us.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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Don’t get hung up on the female thing. The art is not about that.
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Creation is everything you do. Make something.
