“My family moved around a lot, so I don't have any friends that I had a...” — Ntozake Shange Quote

“My family moved around a lot, so I don't have any friends that I had all my life, but I did have annual trips back to Queens.”

“It still amazes and fascinates me that women of color have kept my work alive for these many generations.”

“Multiculturalism is a white people joke.”

“It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.”

“I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.”

“I can't show, let alone share, my emotions. In fact, I've kept it all locked up within myself all my life. Yeah, it's a problem, especially when it comes to relationships with the people close to me.”