Right now being born a girl is to be born threatened. - Ntozake Shange

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I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out with the trash the next day.

Ntozake Shange

Right now being born a girl is to be born threatened.

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Novels allow me to create a whole world.

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Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic, who can share or not share her powers. A woman with a moon falling from her mouth, roses between her legs and tiaras of Spanish moss, this woman is a consort of the spirits.

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i found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely

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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.

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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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I can say that it's 10 miles from my home to Trinity, when in fact that's not quite right, it's off by about 10%, but nobody would say that I'm telling a lie or making a mistake when I rounded off because that's the way we speak and rounded off terms regularly.

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I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out with the trash the next day.

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To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness.

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