I started writing because ...

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. . .
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 Ntozake Shange

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The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.
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 Ntozake Shange
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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And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.
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 Ntozake Shange