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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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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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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There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.
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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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Lies exist only to be extinguished.
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As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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Love is awesome and endless, but it is constantly changing its form. You love something for what it is, then it changes. But that change can make you love it even more.
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Creation is everything you do. Make something.
