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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We didn't have MTV, and I was desperate for something. You know, you're young, you want something off the beaten path. And Twin Peaks was like, surrealism on network TV.
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It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.
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A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.
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It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?"
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I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.
