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Ntozake Shange Quotes

Luckily, my father and my mother liked us to talk, so they encouraged us to talk, so that the girls in my house, they're all very powerful speakers and powerful agents of their own will, as is my brother.

Ntozake Shange

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Father Mother Brother Powerful House

I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.

Jet Li

Remember Hong Kong I Remember Some

I'm bad at hiding my emotions.

Jennifer Hyman

Bad Emotions Hiding

With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music, it is not the same at all. That's why it seemed so important to me, from the beginning of my career, to invent a grammar, a visual vocabulary adapted to electronic music.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Music Beginning Me Career Important

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

Mia Hamm

Sports Light Moment Fire I Am Train

I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.

Steven Spielberg

Survive Always Been Interested How

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

Robert E. Lee

Strength Light Me Bible Never Give

My dad is Dominican, my mother's Puerto Rican, and I got into bachata at the age of 10 or 11. When I started listening, it had a reputation for being music for hick people. I thought that had to be changed. I was born and raised in the Bronx, and I knew you make something cool if you're cool.

Romeo Santos

Mother Music Age People Cool You

The city of Houston has treated me really good.

Jose Altuve

Good City Me Houston Really Treated

I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.

Brett Ratner

Me Never Deal Would Oscars Dreamed

Raphael Saadiq said to me, quite often, that Chuck D was his history teacher. And so he got a lot from the music, things that he wasn't getting maybe in school. And I feel the same way with regards to Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder.

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Music Teacher History Fire School

I like bags that are easy to wear and are pretty to look at. But I don't like them when they have no space and you can't put anything in them.

Alice Dellal

Space Easy You Look Anything Pretty

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

Alice Walker

Regret Done May Mine Behaviour Harm