Ntozake Shange Quotes
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I have made 'start, grow and stay' a big part of my administration.
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War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction.
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I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
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After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.
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More than half the states that will miss the voting-equipment deadline will have signed contracts with vendors.
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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.
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An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.
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And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
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Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives.
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I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.
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It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.
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What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I like things that are immature and offbeat and bizarre. Random jokes. Weird stuff. And stupid. Stupid is the highest compliment a person can pay to me.
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In our ordinaryness we are most bizarre.
