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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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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 Trade Paperback, eBook
Nov 02, 2010
Nov 02, 2010
For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf will be released on November 02, 2010 in eBook
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The Sweet Breath of Life is now available in Trade Paperback
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The Sweet Breath of Life will be released on November 01, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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FOR COLORED GIRLS
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The Sweet Breath of Life will be released on July 13, 2010 in eBook
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The Sweet Breath of Life is now available in eBook
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Table of Contents from Tenderheaded
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The Sweet Breath of Life will be released on October 26, 2004 in Hardcover
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Austin American Statesman, February 6, 2012
...a box. He survived by staying silent, though he sang in his heart. “Freedom’s a-Callin Me,” by Ntozake Shange, tells the story of the Underground Railroad in poetry with beautiful paintings by Rod Brown. Another book by Shange, “Coretta...
TwinCities.com, January 31, 2012
...s right and brings people together with her songs. MIDDLE GRADES AND OLDER "Freedom's a-Callin Me" by Ntozake Shange, paintings by Rod Brown (Amistad, $16.99) - Distinguished poet, author and playwright Shange, award-winner for "For Colored Girls Who...
The Olympian, January 30, 2012
...civil rights movement that demonstrates how these pillars were made. - Eric Goodwin "Freedom's a-Callin Me" By Ntozake Shange, paintings by Rod Brown, HarperCollins, $16.99, ages 8-12 "Freedom's a-Callin Me" tells the tale of a slave, following him from...
CNN, January 25, 2012
...He went on to win the illustrator award in 2005 for "Ellington Was Not a Street," by Ntozake Shange, and in 2007 for "Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom," written by Carole Boston Weatherford. And in 2009, Nelson earned both the...
Indianapolis Recorder, January 25, 2012
...He went on to win the illustrator award in 2005 for "Ellington Was Not a Street," by Ntozake Shange, and in 2007 for "Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom," written by Carole Boston Weatherford. And in 2009, Nelson earned both the...
Dallas Morning News, January 20, 2012
...Much-lauded feminist poet and playwright Ntozake Shange’s third collection of essays,lost in language & sound, is wonderfully deceptive. It’s slender, less than 150 written pages, and the exuberantly festive color of the title...
Jezebel, January 19, 2012
...hard to stand up straight in a crooked room. The subtitle of this book is an adaptation of Ntozake Shange's choreopoem, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. For colored girls is a definitive artistic, visual, and...
Madame Noire | Black Women's Lifestyle Guide | Bla, October 10, 2011
...class. The subtitle, “For Colored Girls Who’ve Considered Politics When Being Strong Isn’t Enough,” refers to Ntozake Shange’s inspirational choreopoem, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf.” “ Fictive...
Amy Reads, September 20, 2011
...Title: For colored girls who have considered suicide / When the rainbow is enuf Author:  Shange, Ntozake Length: 96 pages Genre:  Fiction, Women, Race Publisher / Year:  scribner / First published in 1975 Source:  Borders Rating:  5/5 Why I...
FrumForum, August 11, 2011
...Does the light and frothy “chick lit” movie adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s bestselling novel, The Help sanitize the reality of segregation? The Help tells the story of several upper-class Southern white families in the early 1960s, from the...
Parabasis, August 3, 2011
...August Wilson Ma Rainey's Black Bottom August Wilson The Grace of Silence Michele Norris For Colored Girls… Ntozake Shange Double Indemnity James M. Cain The Year Of Magical Thinking Joan Didion The Dog of the South Charles...
Viva la Feminista, August 2, 2011
...I am aware that there are some standout writers such as Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Sapphire, Ntozake Shange, Esmeralda Santiago, Sandra Cisneros, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Junot Diaz, and others. In the past other authors included Audre...
Carol's Corner, June 25, 2011
...Rebecca Kai Dotlich. Today she shares tips from that workshop. Janet reviews ELLINGTON WAS NOT A STREET by Ntozake Shange and illustrated by one of my all time favorites- Kadir Nelson. Kate shares two poems from Mary Ann Hoberman's YOU READ TO ME, I'LL...
EURweb, June 16, 2011
...have most influenced your stage career? A -There are too many to mention but the list certainly includes Ntozake Shange, who’s “For Colored Girls…” was the first work that spoke to me and the first I committed to memory; Vinette Carroll, whose...