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Ntozake Shange Quotes

I hadn't published a book of poetry in over a decade because I've been very ill. As I got better and started to write, I said, 'Wow, even as an old woman, I could have a selected book of poems.'

Ntozake Shange

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: October 18, 1948

Topics

Woman Poetry Book Better Said Write

I got a bunch of my own, but my favorite signature move of all time is Ric Flair's Figure Four Leglock.

John Cena

Time My Own Signature Own Move Four

I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.

John Oates

Day School Wait High School Grow

More attention and thought goes into naming a character in 'Call Of Duty' than all the work that can go into certain movies. Blood and sweat and tears go into figuring out the names because they are so important. The call signs say a lot about you. The brotherhood that's evoked by the name is quite profound.

Stephen Gaghan

Work Character Tears Thought Name

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Stephen Stills

Love Women Men Literature Three

Heroes are people who think more of others than themselves. This is not to say that they don't think of themselves. They do. They certainly do. But they think of others more.

Lloyd Alexander

People Think Say Others More Heroes

Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

Jason Epstein

Will Become Digital Disappear

No matter what you do in the offseason, you can't simulate putting spikes on and standing in the grass and being around your teammates. When you're around your teammates, you step it up a notch. It's just kind of instinctive you do that.

Jon Lester

Step You Teammates Kind Grass Up

My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was turning 40. We were doing 'L.A. Law,' and I got this call that my dad was in Rome and had had a stroke. I want to stress that it wasn't a huge stroke, but it was enough to provide a serious wake-up call.

Corbin Bernsen

Time Stress Law Doing Enough Rome

The Republicans in the House and Senate took the district that I firmly represent, 22 in south Florida, from a D plus one to a D plus five almost a D plus six district, which means you are given a five to six percent registration advantage to Democrats. They drew in more Democrats into the district I represent.

Allen West

You House More Florida Democrats

We're told that when we remember, the same parts of our brain light up as when we experienced the event we're remembering. Your brain lives through it again.

Phil Klay

Light Brain Remember Remembering Up

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Lyman Abbott

Life Innocence Life Is A Temptation

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We've all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we've all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that's a gift - to you and your audience.

Kevin Hart

Funny Pain Laughter World Gift You