Colored Girls Quotes

#1. I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color.

Kerry Washington

#2. She needed what most colored girls needed: a chorus of mamas, grandmamas, aunts, cousins, sisters, neighbors, Sunday school teachers, best girl friends, and what all to give her the strength life demanded of her - and the humor with which to live it.

Toni Morrison

#3. And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.

Ntozake Shange

#4. You've interrupted my plans for the last time, Mr. Bond.

Ian Fleming

#5. We're late. For a VERY important date

Elle Lothlorien

#6. Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars and smoking cigarettes and walking down city streets in flesh colored stockings.

Anna Godbersen

#7. I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle along the halls with a pad like a flattened rabbit tail wadded between my legs, sopping with liver-colored blood.

Margaret Atwood

#8. I have so many children. Half of mine are the ones that just must climb the tree, must climb the mountain, must get dirty, must jump off, flip into the pool sideways because it's just who they are. So you try to give them as much guidance and prepare them but they are who they are.

Angelina Jolie

#9. I done forgot all abt words
aint got no definitions

Ntozake Shange

#10. It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because it is closed in on itself.

Pope Francis

#11. Did business with Qatar, a US ally which protects al-Qaeda.

Rudy Giuliani

#12. Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

Bill Keller

#13. It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.

Queen Elizabeth II

#14. Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Robert Burns

#15. I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

Lorene Scafaria

#16. All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.

Vinoba Bhave

#17. What I want and I wanted to be unforgettable.

Ntozake Shange

#18. I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

Bear Grylls

#19. Alex direly wanted to try something stupid, but he wasn't about try anything stupid under these circumstances. He'd wait till he won their confidence, till they gave him a lot more initiative and leeway. Then he'd try something stupid.

Bruce Sterling

#20. One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Frank Gehry

#21. Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

Ntozake Shange

#22. How many of us count fictional characters, or those we've never met, among our closest friends? My hand's up.

Richard Bach

#23. I want to get married but I look at husbands the same way I look at tattoos. I want one, but I can't decide what I want, and I don't want to be stuck with something I'd grow to hate and have surgically removed.

Margaret Cho