Ntozake Shange Quotes

I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then we are able to sustain ourselves in spite of ourselves.

Ntozake Shange

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• I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

  

  E. G. Marshall
  • Movies
  • Stock
  • Silent

• Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Taken
  • Industry
  • Seriously

• Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Knows
  • Fight

• Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

  

  Aaron Hill
  • Judge
  • Lose
  • Youth

• Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn't matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • You
  • Matter
  • Decide

• Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Long
  • Everyday
  • Decisions

• By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Believe

• Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

  

  Emily Carr
  • Soul

• Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.'

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • People
  • Night
  • Star

• I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Future
  • Small
  • Path

• I normally don't love green juices, but Body & Eden makes theirs tasty by blending ingredients like avocado and banana with the usual suspects like kale and spinach. Delicious as they are, they're low calorie, and the drink names are catchy: I Have Balance, I Have Energy, and my favorite, I Have Calm.

  

  Gayle King
  • Energy
  • Balance
  • Green

• I keep my head straight by having the right people around me, from my friends and family to my management and my team. They all keep me in my place. If I didn't have them supporting all the work that I do, I wouldn't be in such a solid place.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• He'd forgiven who he needed to forgive, let go of what he needed to, and accepted himself as he was. Archibald Alexander Leach, Cary Grant, and all.

  

  Jennifer Grant

• When I moved to L.A. and had my first meeting with my agents, they asked me what I wanted for my career. And I didn't speak English at the time, but I did say, 'I wanna be Ryan Gosling as a woman.' So I got very excited to play opposite him.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • Time
  • Career
  • English

• With any teen show, there's going to be drama and heartache.

  

  Lili Reinhart
  • Drama
  • Teen
  • Heartache

• The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.

  

  Eric Alterman
  • Party
  • Military
  • Deception

• Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.

  

  Penelope Leach
  • Business
  • Giving
  • Baby

• I was in the ROTC. Of course, ROTC stood for 'Running off to Canada.'

  

  Jay Leno
  • Running

• Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • May
  • Rap
  • Intellectual

• Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Soul

• You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. Congress will do every thing they can to assist you in this wise intention.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Art
  • Wish

• I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then we are able to sustain ourselves in spite of ourselves.

  

  Ntozake Shange
  • Art
  • Joy
  • Force