Ntozake Shange For Colored Girls Quotes & Sayings

You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it? — Sally Hawkins

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk. — Ovid

But bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical
dilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do you see the point
my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender/ my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too beautiful to have thrown back on my face
my love is too sanctified to have thrown back on my face
my love is too magic to have thrown back on my face
my love is too saturday nite to have thrown back on my face
my love is too complicated to have thrown back on my face
my love is too music to have thrown back on my face — Ntozake Shange

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

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience
unless they are still up. — Ellen Goodman

I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world. — Joseph Goebbels

I done forgot all abt words
aint got no definitions — Ntozake Shange

What I want and I wanted to be unforgettable. — Ntozake Shange

Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done — Immanuel Kant

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