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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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
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Comedy gives you a shot of euphoria that distracts you from everything that's awful.
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I am gone and am not coming back, but I remember everything.
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The greatest gift of all time is that you can make creation infectious because people spend less time being negative If you log all the time with negativity in the while world, I wonder how much better the world would be if people sat down and did something positive. It spirals.
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Movies are different from books and you need to be open to go into that difference.
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The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.
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I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.
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Creation is everything you do. Make something.