I'm committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and conscious emotional responses to being alive. ... The kind of esteem that's given to brightness/smartness obliterates average people or slow learners from participating fully in human life, particularly technical and intellectual life. But you cannot exclude any human being from emotional participation.
my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender - Ntozake Shange
my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender
- Ntozake Shange
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 themse… - Ntozake Shange
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 themse…
Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic, who can share or not share her … - Ntozake Shange
Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic, who can share or not share her …
somebody/ anybody sing a black girl's song bring her out to know herself to know you but sing her rhythms carin/ struggle/ hard times sing her song o… - Ntozake Shange
somebody/ anybody sing a black girl's song bring her out to know herself to know you but sing her rhythms carin/ struggle/ hard times sing her song o…
Where there is a woman there is magic. - Ntozake Shange
Where there is a woman there is magic.
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… - Ntozake Shange
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…
i found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely - Ntozake Shange
i found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely
Right now being born a girl is to be born threatened. - Ntozake Shange
Right now being born a girl is to be born threatened.
Creation is everything you do. Make something. - Ntozake Shange
Creation is everything you do. Make something.
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