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Ntozake Shange (/ˈɛntoʊˌzɑːki ˈʃɑːŋˌɡeɪ/ EN-toh-zah-kee SHAHNG-gay; born October 18, 1948) is an American playwright and poet. As a self-proclaimed black feminist, she addresses issues relating to race and feminism in much of her work.

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Where there is a woman there is magic.

Magic, Tiaras, Woman, Women

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 of life she's been dead so long closed in silence so long she doesn't know the sound of her own voice her infinite beauty she's half-notes scattered without rhythm
no tune sing her sighs sing the song of her possibilities sing a righteous gospel let her be born let her be born & handled warmly.

Closed, Girl, Gospel, Sighs, Song, Struggle

our dreams draw blood from old sores.

Blood, Draws, Dream, Dreams, Old

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.

Apology, Cars, Mornin, Sorry, Sympathy, Usin

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.

Average, Beings, Emotional, Ideas, Responses, Unconscious

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.

Arrive, Girl, Live, Thinking, Writing, Young

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.

Body, Feet, Ground, Wind, Writing

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

Good, Nice, Rip, Smile, Sweet, World

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

African American, Alive, Conquered, Feminist, Woman, Women

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

Colored, Ends, Girl, Girls, Moving, Suicide

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.

Emotional, Girl, Tend, Thinking

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 powers. A woman with a moon falling from her mouth, roses between her legs and tiaras of Spanish moss, this woman is a consort of the spirits.

Fall, Falling, Inspiring, Knows, Moon, Share

in our ordinaryness we are most bizarre.

Bizarre, Ordinariness, Ordinaryness

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.

Against, Rid, Terrible, Wall, Want, Wretched

Novels allow me to create a whole world.

Create, Novel, Novels, Whole, World

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

Ancient, Gender, Separation, Soul, Spirit, Understand

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. . .

Dreamed, Ready, Teenager, Thinking, Writing, Yearning

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

Leaving, South, Thought

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