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List of Ntozake Shange Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 26 inspiring quotes by Ntozake Shange.

About Ntozake Shange

  • Born: October 18, 1948
  • Occupation: Playwright
    • I've never thought of leaving the south, never.
    Leaving South
    Novels allow me to create a whole world.
    World Novel Whole
    Nice is such a rip-off.
    Nice Rip Niceness
    I usedta live in the world really be in the world free & sweet talkin good mornin & thank-you & nice day uh huh i cant now i cant be nice to nobody nice is such a rip-off regular beauty & a smile in the street is just a set-up
    Sweet Nice Rip
    And this is for colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.
    Girl Suicide Moving
    I hit my head against the wall because i don't want to know all the terrible things that i know about. i don't want to feel all these wretched things, but they're in me already. if i don't get rid of them, i'm not ever going to feel anything else.
    Wall Want Terrible
    When words & manners leave you no space for yourself make very personal very clear & your obstructions will join you or disappear.
    Space Manners Disappear
    One thing i don’t need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs i don’t know what to do wit em they don’t open doors or bring the sun back they don’t make me happy or get a mornin paper didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars cuz a sorry.
    Sympathy Sorry Apology
    I started writing because there's an absence of things i was familiar with or that i dreamed about. one of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning i had as a teenager. . .and when i get ready to write, i think i'm trying to fill that. . .
    Teenager Writing Thinking
    In our ordinaryness we are most bizarre.
    Bizarre Ordinariness
    The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.
    Pain Kindness Confused
    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.
    People Feelings Our Society
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