Ntozake Shange Quotes
I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.
Quotes to Explore
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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I exercise five days a week at home.
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I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.
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We think that there really is racial bias in determining who people want to date.
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I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
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A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.
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Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.
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All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.
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A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.
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I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.
