Ntozake Shange Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Ntozake Shange:

Multiculturalism is a white people joke.
~Ntozake Shange


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ntozake-shange-quotes/#d7e0bb00

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.
~Ntozake Shange


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ntozake-shange-quotes/#7178dfdf

If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.
~Ntozake Shange


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ntozake-shange-quotes/#d13a0cec

White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.
~Ntozake Shange


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ntozake-shange-quotes/#18689618

Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power.
~Ntozake Shange


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ntozake-shange-quotes/#46f68afd

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.
~Ntozake Shange


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ntozake-shange-quotes/#6d2889d5

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.
~Ntozake Shange


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ntozake-shange-quotes/#7d81f1be

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