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Ntozake Shange [1948-0] American
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Ntozake Shange is an American playwright, and poet. As a self-proclaimed black feminist, she addresses issues relating to race and feminism in much of her work.

Anger, Change



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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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If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.
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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. Change
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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. Anger
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Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power.
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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.
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Multiculturalism is a white people joke.
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