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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.

– Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange

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.

– Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange

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.

– Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange

I hadn’t published a book of poetry in over a decade because I’ve been very ill. As I got better and started to write, I said, ‘Wow, even as an old woman, I could have a selected book of poems.’

– Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange

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.

– Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange

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.

– Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange

Art gives us the opportunity to have clarity as well as hope that we might be able to survive a situation, or hope that we can find a way out of it without too much more injury to ourselves.

– Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange

It still amazes and fascinates me that women of color have kept my work alive for these many generations.

– Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange

I never intended to go to Broadway. I was very happy being in an Off Broadway theater and having an Off Broadway life. What it did to me is try to fit a round peg – that’s me – into a whole bunch of square buildings. I just didn’t fit.

– Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange

I’ve still got my characters in my head, and I can still hear them. When I go to the grocery store, I hear them.

– Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange

My characters don’t talk necessarily in a normal American way of talking. They talk a little different.

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Ntozake Shange

I was constantly being sought after for money. And the vitriol that came my way from many who felt threatened by controversial aspects of ‘for colored girls’ was often frightening.

– Ntozake Shange

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