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
Absence, Senses, I Think, Teenager
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
References, Use, Spencer, Shakespeare
Multiculturalism is a white people joke.
- Ntozake Shange
White, Multiculturalism, Joke
Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power.
- Ntozake Shange
Culture, Power, About, Multiculturalism
If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.
- Ntozake Shange
Slave, Life-Changing, Being, Descendant
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
Other, Firm Believer, Lives, Determines
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
Color, Think, Young Girls, Arrive
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