Ntozake Shange

Playwright

1948-10-18 – 2018-10-27

Ntozake Shange was an American playwright and poet best known for for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. Her work combined poetry, drama, and performance in influential ways.

Books by Ntozake Shange

For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf
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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
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Quotes by Ntozake Shange

one thing I don't needis any more apologiesi got sorry greetin me at my front dooryou can keep yrsi don't know what to do wit emthey don't open doorsor bring the sun backthey don't make me happyor get a mornin paperdidn't nobody stop usin my tears to wash carscuz a sorry.
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but bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysicaldilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do you see the pointmy spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender/ my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my facemy love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face my love is too beautiful to have thrown back on my face my love is too sanctified to have thrown back on my face my love is too magic to have thrown back on my face my love is too saturday nite to have thrown back on my face my love is too complicated to have thrown back on my face my love is too music to have thrown back on my face
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i found god in myselfand i loved heri loved her fiercely
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one thing I don't needis any more apologiesi got sorry greetin me at my front dooryou can keep yrsi don't know what to do wit emthey don't open doorsor bring the sun backthey don't make me happyor get a mornin paperdidn't nobody stop usin my tears to wash carscuz a sorry.
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but bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysicaldilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do you see the pointmy spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender/ my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my facemy love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face my love is too beautiful to have thrown back on my face my love is too sanctified to have thrown back on my face my love is too magic to have thrown back on my face my love is too saturday nite to have thrown back on my face my love is too complicated to have thrown back on my face my love is too music to have thrown back on my face
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i found god in myselfand i loved heri loved her fiercely
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I was constantly being sought after for money. And the vitriol that came my way from many who felt threatened by controversial aspects of 'for colored girls' was often frightening.
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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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I had - there were three strokes, and I lost my ability to read and write and speak, and it really put me by the wayside for a number of years.
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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.
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Six blocks of cruelty.
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