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Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange
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Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange, poet, novelist, playwright, and performer, wrote the Broadway-produced and Obie Award-winning For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf. She has also written numerous works of fiction, including Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo, Betsy Brown, and Liliane.

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Excerpt 1 from For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Apr 07, 2013
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Excerpt 1 from For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf
Jul 20, 2012
For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf will be released on November 09, 2010 in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook
Nov 09, 2010
For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf is now available in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook
Nov 09, 2010
For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf will be released on November 02, 2010 in eBook
Nov 02, 2010
The Sweet Breath of Life is now available in Trade Paperback
Nov 01, 2010
The Sweet Breath of Life will be released on November 01, 2010 in Trade Paperback
Nov 01, 2010
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FOR COLORED GIRLS
Sep 22, 2010
The Sweet Breath of Life will be released on July 13, 2010 in eBook
Jul 13, 2010
The Sweet Breath of Life is now available in eBook
Jul 13, 2010
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Jan 14, 2009
The Sweet Breath of Life will be released on October 26, 2004 in Hardcover
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The Sweet Breath of Life is now available in Hardcover
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Tenderheaded will be released on October 19, 2004 in Trade Paperback
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Tenderheaded is now available in Trade Paperback
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San Antonio Current, March 27, 2013
...imbue her play and characters with dance, music, and movement employing jump cuts, flashbacks and fast-forwards that echo Ntozake Shange’s dramatic prose poem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Grise’s lyrical...
AOL Black Voices, February 28, 2013
...Canada" by Ishmael Reed (1989) "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf" by Ntozake Shange (1975) "Half Of A Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Adichie (2008) "Head Off & Split" by Nikky Finney (2011) "Decoded" by Jay-Z...
HamptonRoads.com, February 27, 2013
...org. From the promoter: CELEBRATE WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH WITH A SPECIAL SEASON EXTRA: A STAGED READING OF NTOZAKE SHANGE'S LANDMARK WORK: "FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF" From its inception in California...
Raleigh News & Observer, January 23, 2013
...subject is the story. ?It has to speak to me first. There?s a quote I love by (author) Ntozake Shange, ?Beauty denies negativity.? I think one of our most powerful gifts is to transform our environments. King and Mandela speak to that mantra of the human...
Metromix Louisville, January 11, 2013
...with the Tallahassee (Fla).Democrat in July. That's where she fell in love with the writings of Ntozake Shange (For Colored Girls ...), Tennessee Williams (Night of the Iguana), Flannery O'Connor (Wise Blood), Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita) and, of course,...
PRWeb, January 7, 2013
...Angeles Times “Best Books of the Year” in 2001. He is currently at work on a biography of Ntozake Shange. Nicosia lives in Corte Madera, California. Join Gerry Nicosia at these other events: 1/10: San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium –...
Yahoo! News, January 7, 2013
...Angeles Times “Best Books of the Year” in 2001. He is currently at work on a biography of Ntozake Shange. Nicosia lives in Corte Madera, California. Join Gerry Nicosia at these other events: 1/10: San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium –...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, January 11, 2013
...with the Tallahassee (Fla).Democrat in July. That's where she fell in love with the writings of Ntozake Shange (For Colored Girls ...), Tennessee Williams (Night of the Iguana), Flannery O'Connor (Wise Blood), Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita) and, of course,...
Metromix Atlanta, January 11, 2013
...with the Tallahassee (Fla).Democrat in July. That's where she fell in love with the writings of Ntozake Shange (For Colored Girls ...), Tennessee Williams (Night of the Iguana), Flannery O'Connor (Wise Blood), Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita) and, of course,...
USA Today, January 11, 2013
...with the Tallahassee (Fla).Democrat in July. That's where she fell in love with the writings of Ntozake Shange (For Colored Girls ...), Tennessee Williams (Night of the Iguana), Flannery O'Connor (Wise Blood), Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita) and, of course,...
Metromix Indianapolis, January 11, 2013
...with the Tallahassee (Fla).Democrat in July. That's where she fell in love with the writings of Ntozake Shange (For Colored Girls ...), Tennessee Williams (Night of the Iguana), Flannery O'Connor (Wise Blood), Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita) and, of course,...
Metromix Nashville, January 11, 2013
...with the Tallahassee (Fla).Democrat in July. That's where she fell in love with the writings of Ntozake Shange (For Colored Girls ...), Tennessee Williams (Night of the Iguana), Flannery O'Connor (Wise Blood), Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita) and, of course,...
Metromix Louisville, January 11, 2013
...with the Tallahassee (Fla).Democrat in July. That's where she fell in love with the writings of Ntozake Shange (For Colored Girls ...), Tennessee Williams (Night of the Iguana), Flannery O'Connor (Wise Blood), Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita) and, of course,...
Broadway World, January 10, 2013
...Directorial projects include the world premiere productions of UDU by Sekou Sundiata (651Arts/BAM), The Love Space Demands by Ntozake Shange (Crossroads), No Black Male Show/Pagan Operetta by Carl Hancock Rux (Joe's Pub/The Kitchen), Banana Beer Bath by...