Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable.
Ntozake ShangeBeing alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.
Ntozake ShangeAnd this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.
Ntozake Shangei usedta live in the world really be in the world free & sweet talkin good mornin & thank-you & nice day uh huh i cant now i cant be nice to nobody nice is such a rip-off regular beauty & a smile in the street is just a set-up
Ntozake Shange