Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shangeis an American playwright, and poet. As a self-proclaimed black feminist, she addresses issues relating to race and feminism in much of her work...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth18 October 1948
CityTrenton, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
writing wind feet
I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground.
women magic tiaras
Where there is a woman there is magic.
emotional average ideas
I'm committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and conscious emotional responses to being alive. ... The kind of esteem that's given to brightness/smartness obliterates average people or slow learners from participating fully in human life, particularly technical and intellectual life. But you cannot exclude any human being from emotional participation.
alive being-a-woman colored-girls
Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.
dream blood draws
our dreams draw blood from old sores.
sympathy sorry apology
one thing I don’t need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs i don’t know what to do wit em they don’t open doors or bring the sun back they don’t make me happy or get a mornin paper didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars cuz a sorry.
rip nice niceness
nice is such a rip-off.
bizarre ordinariness
in our ordinaryness we are most bizarre.
leaving south
I've never thought of leaving the South, never.
maintain milton people references shakespeare spencer
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.