Ntozake Shange Quotes

Novels allow me to create a whole world.

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• I don't think I have a signature.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Think
  • Signature

• Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Life
  • Up
  • War

• I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.

  

  Adam Driver
  • saw
  • Six
  • Pilot

• The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Down
  • Heroes
  • Resistance

• In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Hole

• It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Starting

• I love being the sidekick. I'm pretty sure fans love seeing me that way.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Love
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I don't want to dog the NFL.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Want
  • Dog
  • NFL

• Europe has the technology, the strategic and economic might to defend itself.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Technology
  • Economic
  • Europe

• My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Parents
  • Political

• The world can no longer accept, the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Children
  • Why

• It is important to realize that the market economy, though it is associated historically with the rise of modern private capitalism, is as a mechanism not necessarily limited to that system.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Important

• Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.

  

  Patanjali
  • Heart
  • Power
  • Peace

• Sure, call me any ugly name you choose - The steel of freedom does not stain. From those who live like leeches on the people's lives, We must take back our land again, America!

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Live
  • America

• When I'm shooting, I just try to make sure I wouldn't be embarrassed of it later, because in Watertown, you don't get away with anything.

  

  Eliza Dushku

• I dont know how to add things to my own wikipedia page.

  

  Craig Ferguson

• The audience is smart and catch on pretty quick when they are sold the same old thing.

  

  Ehren Kruger
  • Pretty
  • Smart

• I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy - gunman - kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escaped. He caught us again. We escaped again. So, a pretty horrific experience.

  

  James Comey
  • School
  • Home
  • Experience

• Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

  

  Elizabeth Hardwick
  • Reading
  • Wisdom

• In Los Angeles there's, like, this awful image because the girls are so skinny. I don't think it's attractive whatsoever, and I also think that it gives a bad image to kids that are in their early teens. It's not healthy.

  

  Jana Kramer
  • Kids
  • Bad

• I think if you've got people on your side, if you've got people really laughing, you are able to make them cry.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • People

• What would that be, a world without war? It would be the real world. Peace was the true life, the life of working and learning and bringing up children to work and learn. War, which devoured work, learning, and children, was the denial of reality.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Novels allow me to create a whole world.

  

  Ntozake Shange
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