Ntozake Shange Quotes

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Ntozake Shange

Profession : Playwright

Birth : October 18, 1948

There was quite a ruckus about the seven ladies in their simple colored dresses. I was truly dumbfounded that I was, right then and there, deemed the biggest threat to black men since cotton pickin', and not all women were in my corner, either.

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My family moved around a lot, so I don't have any friends that I had all my life, but I did have annual trips back to Queens.

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There was nothing to aspire to, no one to honor. Sojourner Truth wasn't a big enough role model for me. I couldn't go around abolishing slavery.

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I had - there were three strokes, and I lost my ability to read and write and speak, and it really put me by the wayside for a number of years.

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Luckily, my father and my mother liked us to talk, so they encouraged us to talk, so that the girls in my house, they're all very powerful speakers and powerful agents of their own will, as is my brother.

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