Quotes by Ntozake Shange
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.
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.
Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power.
Multiculturalism is a white people joke.
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.
If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.
