"right now being born a girl is to be born threatened ..."

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Ntozake Shange

#Girl Quotes #Women Quotes #Born Quotes

“It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.”
“I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.”
“A vegetarian driving a Hummer emits less carbon than a meat eater on a bicycle.”
“No one can see your life the way you see it.”
“You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China.”
“Why do they kill people of other religions because of religion? Why do they hate the Israelis and despise their right to exist? Why do they hate each other? Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.”

Source : "Lott: Bush barely mentioned Iraq in meeting with Senate Republicans" by Ted Barrett, edition.cnn.com. September 28, 2006.
“Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about.”
“I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to elaborate the work in its breadth, its narrowness, its height, its depth...I hear and see the image in front of me from every angle as if it had been cast and only the labour of writing it down remains.”

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