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I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.

Ntozake Shange
Girl, Writing, Thinking
"Back at you". Interview with Rebecca Carroll, www.motherjones.com. January 1995.
I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.