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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Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.
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When a theater goes dark for the night, a stagehand leaves a lighted lamp on stage. No one knows why any more, but some old timers say it is to keep the ghosts away. Others say it lights the stage for the ghosts to play. Whichever theory one adheres to, most people agree: a great theater is haunted.
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Ordinary Americans can't pollute for free. You can't dump your trash on the sidewalk or throw all your refuse into your neighbor's yard. I don't understand why corporate polluters should be allowed to dump megatons of carbon, the most dangerous pollution in the history of the world, into our thin shell of an atmosphere, and not pay a penny to do it.
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We were talking to shop owners or ordinary people who were living in these buildings now. A lot of the Olympic Villages were turned into housing.
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In our ordinaryness we are most bizarre.
