Ntozake Shange Quotes

i found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely

I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.

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.

Where there is a woman there is magic.

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender

Right now being born a girl is to be born threatened.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

When I die, I will no be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves.

I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground.

our dreams draw blood from old sores.

Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable.

And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

in our ordinaryness we are most bizarre.

When words & manners leave you no space for yourself make very personal very clear & your obstructions will join you or disappear.

nice is such a rip-off.

I've never thought of leaving the South, never.

Novels allow me to create a whole world.

Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings and yet be very respectable.

i found god in myself& i loved her/ i loved her fiercely

i'm only human, & inadequacy is what makes us human, & if we was perfect we wdnt have nothin to strive for, so you might as well go on & forgive me pretty baby, cause i'm sorry

i done forgot all abt wordsaint got no definitions

i found god in myselfand i loved heri loved her fiercely