"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."

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Source : "Back at you". Interview with Rebecca Carroll, www.motherjones.com. January 1995.

Ntozake Shange

#Girl Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.”
“First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how they feel about it. Which means I'm interested in romance fiction. I was drawn to it, as both a reader and a writer, at the very beginning of my career. It's my kind of storytelling.”
“I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.”
“I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.”
“There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.”
“I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.”
“They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.”
“The 21st century looks different. It's been very disruptive. It has created a lot of insecurity. We have to adjust to that, because the 21st century has real promise. Now, the higher-paying jobs of this new century are fantastic. The problem is, you have to have some level of higher education, maybe not a four-year degree, but some level of higher education, to get those jobs.”

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